This article provides an update of the Theory of Event Coding (TEC), which claims that
perception and action are identical processes operating on the same codes–event files …

The theory of event coding (TEC) is a general framework explaining how perceived and
produced events (stimuli and responses) are cognitively represented and how their …

The primate brain codes perceived events in a distributed fashion, which raises the question
of how the codes referring to the same event are related to each other. Recent findings …

A perceived event such as a visual stimulus in the external world and a to-be-produced
event such as an intentional action are subserved by event representations. Event …

Traditional approaches to human information processing tend to deal with perception and
action planning in isolation, so that an adequate account of the perception-action interface is …

Five experiments investigated the spontaneous integration of stimulus and response
features. Participants performed simple, prepared responses (R1) to the mere presence of …

The concept of embodied cognition attracts enormous interest but neither is the concept
particularly well-defined nor is the related research guided by systematic theorizing. To …

Commonsense and theorizing about action control agree in assuming that human behavior
is (mainly) driven by goals, but no mechanistic theory of what goals are, where they come …

Our ability to generate actions and to recognize actions performed by others is the bedrock
of our social life. Behavioral evidence suggests that the processes underlying perception …

Understanding the goals or intentions of other people requires a broad range of evaluative
processes including the decoding of biological motion, knowing about object properties, and …