A fundamental issue in cognitive neuroscience is how the brain encodes others' actions and
intentions. In recent years, a potential advance in our knowledge on this issue is the …

Spoken language is an innate ability of the human being and represents the most
widespread mode of social communication. The ability to share concepts, intentions and …

Several neurophysiologic and neuroimaging studies suggested that motor and perceptual
systems are tightly linked along a continuum rather than providing segregated mechanisms …

Processing facial expressions is an essential component of social interaction, especially for
preverbal infants. In human adults and monkeys, this process involves the motor system …

Studies indicate that perceiving emotional body language recruits fronto-parietal regions
involved in action execution. However, the nature of such motor activation is unclear. Using …

More than two decades ago, the mirror neuron system (MNS) was discovered in non-human
primates: Single-cell recordings detected visuo-motor neurons that discharged not only …

The presence of a network of areas in the parietal and premotor cortices, which are active
both during action execution and observation, suggests that we might understand the …

All interpersonal interactions are underpinned by action: perceiving and understanding the
actions of others, and responding by planning and performing self-made actions. Perception …

The primary somatosensory cortex (SI) plays a critical role in somatosensation as well as in
action performance and social cognition. Although the SI has been a major target of …

The observation of others' actions activates a network of temporal, parietal and
premotor/prefrontal areas in macaque monkeys and humans. This action-observation …