Mirror neurons (MNs) were first described in a seminal paper in 1992 as a class of monkey
premotor cells discharging during both action execution and observation. Despite their …

Survival prompts organisms to prepare adaptive behavior in response to environmental and
social threat. However, what are the specific features of the appearance of a conspecific that …

Altruism, defined as costly other-regarding behavior, varies considerably across people and
contexts. One prominent context in which people frequently must decide on how to socially …

Socioeconomic status (SES), a concept related to an individual's economic and social
position relative to others, can shape social interactions like altruistic behaviors. However …

Body posture and configuration provide important visual cues about the emotion states of
other people. We know that bodily form is processed holistically, however, emotion …

This ultrahigh field 7 T fMRI study addressed the question of whether there exists a core
network of brain areas at the service of different aspects of body perception. Participants …

Previous research on body representation in the brain has focused on category-specific
representation, using fMRI to investigate the response pattern to body stimuli in …

Gibson's notion of affordances refers to the opportunities for action that the environment
offers, and that the organism can act upon. A good decade later, the discovery of mirror …

Actors are required to engage in multimodal modulations of their body, face, and voice in
order to create a holistic portrayal of a character during performance. We present here the …

The human visual system can efficiently extract distinct physical, biological, and social
attributes (eg facing direction, gender, and emotional state) from biological motion (BM), but …