Understanding others' intentions requires both the identification of social cues (eg,
emotional facial expressions, gaze direction) and the attribution of a mental state to another …

Understanding the intentions and desires of those around us is vital for adapting to a
dynamic social environment. In this paper, a novel event-related functional Magnetic …

Decoding others' intentions is a crucial aspect of social cognition. Neuroimaging studies
suggest that inferring immediate goals engages the neural system for action understanding …

Implicit or automatic detection of social signals, which discriminate animate, intentional
objects in the environment, is essential for higher social cognition and its development …

In social interactions, we rely on nonverbal cues like gaze direction to understand the
behavior of others. How we react to these cues is affected by whether they are believed to …

Representation of others' actions and mental states leads to the activation of several brain
networks: the mentalizing and the “mirror neuron” systems as well as a “low level” social …

The ability to infer other people's intentions is crucial for successful human social
interactions. Such inference relies on an adaptive interplay of sensory evidence and prior …

This fMRI study aimed at investigating how differences in personality traits affect the
processing of dynamic and natural gestures containing social versus nonsocial intent. We …

The behaviors of other people are often central to envisioning the future. The ability to
accurately predict the thoughts and actions of others is essential for successful social …

Movements can inform us about what people are doing and also about how they feel. This
phenomenologically evident distinction has been suggested to correspond functionally with …