Abstract The Gesture as Simulated Action (GSA) framework was proposed to explain how
gestures arise from embodied simulations of the motor and perceptual states that occur …

In order to perceive and act in its environment, the individual's body and its interactions with
the sensory and social environment are represented in the brain. This internal …

Social relationships are particularly important during adolescence. In recent years,
histological and MRI studies have shown that the brain is subject to considerable structural …

Over the past thirty years, and particularly within the last ten years, researchers in the areas
of social psychology, cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and neuroscience have …

Adolescence is usually defined as the period of psychological and social transition between
childhood and adulthood. The beginning of adolescence, around the onset of puberty, is …

Despite the assumed prevalence of risk-taking behavior in adolescence, the laboratory
evidence of risk taking remains scarce, and the individual variation poorly understood …

Motor imagery provides a unique window on the integrity of movement representation. How
this ability unfolds during development remains unknown, however. It was the aim of this …

In a recent study, children with movement clumsiness (or Developmental Coordination
Disorder—DCD) were shown to have difficulties making rapid online corrections when …

This experiment was designed to evaluate the effects of pure motor imagery training (MIT)
and its combination with physical practice on learning an aiming task with the more affected …

Two experiments investigated the consequences of action at encoding and recall on the
ability to follow sequences of instructions. Children ages 7–9 years recalled sequences of …