This meta-analysis explores the role of the cerebellum in social cognition. Recent meta-
analyses of neuroimaging studies since 2008 demonstrate that the cerebellum is only …

This meta-analysis explores the role of the mirror and mentalizing systems in the
understanding of other people's action goals. Based on over 200 fMRI studies, this analysis …

Over the last decade, many neuroimaging studies have assessed the human brain networks
underlying action observation and imitation using a variety of tasks and paradigms …

The vestibular system contributes to the control of posture and eye movements and is also
involved in various cognitive functions including spatial navigation and memory. These …

Self-consciousness has mostly been approached by philosophical enquiry and not by
empirical neuroscientific study, leading to an overabundance of diverging theories and an …

A series of experiments provide evidence that affordances rely not only on the mutual
appropriateness of the features of an object and the abilities of an individual, but also on the …

By using meaningful stimuli, multisensory research has recently started to investigate the
impact of stimulus content on crossmodal integration. Variations in this respect have often …

We investigate non-verbal communication through expressive body movement and musical
sound, to reveal higher cognitive processes involved in the integration of emotion from …

Previous studies have shown a motor recruitment during the observation of graspable
objects. This recruitment has been considered crucial in encoding the observed objects in …

Observing and learning actions and behaviors from others, a mechanism crucial for survival
and social interaction, engages the mirror neuron system. To determine whether vision is a …