About 40 years ago, James J. Gibson coined the term “affordance” to describe the action
possibilities offered to an animal by the environment with reference to the animal's action …

The ventral visual stream is conceived as a pathway for object recognition. However, we
also recognize the actions an object can be involved in. Here, we show that action …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Stroke significantly impacts the quality of life. However, the long-term cognitive evolution in
stroke is poorly predictable at the individual level. There is an urgent need to better predict …

Understanding and responding to other people's actions is fundamental for social
interactions. Whereas many studies emphasize the importance of parietal and frontal …

Within-group variation in sociality has been linked to correlates of fitness across vertebrates.
Individuals that form strong social bonds with a few partners, or are well integrated into a …

Tool use is a defining feature of human species. Therefore, a fundamental issue is to
understand the cognitive bases of human tool use. Given that people cannot use tools …

In this review, we propose that the neural basis for the spontaneous, diversified human tool
use is an area devoted to the execution and observation of tool actions, located in the left …

The two visual systems hypothesis suggests processing of visual information into two distinct
routes in the brain: a dorsal stream for the control of actions and a ventral stream for the …

How is knowledge about the meanings of words and objects represented in the human
brain? Current theories embrace two radically different proposals: either distinct cortical …