This review asks whether observers can obtain information about others' intentions from
observation of their actions; and if so, whether this process is performed using direct …

While the action observation and mentalizing networks are considered to play
complementary roles in understanding others' goals and intentions, they might be …

Human social interaction is part of what defines us. Here I present an overview of recent
studies of imitation, a subdomain of social interaction that can be dissected and examined in …

Humanoid robots might become more and more present in the most ordinary contexts of
millions of people worldwide. Humans reason about these artificial agents mainly through …

The simple act of watching another person can change a person's behaviour in subtle but
important ways; the individual being watched is now capable of signalling to the watcher …

Inferring intentions from verbal and nonverbal human behaviour is critical for everyday
social life. Here, we combined Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) with a behavioural …

Primates interpret conspecific behaviour as goal-directed and expect others to achieve
goals by the most efficient means possible. While this teleological stance is prominent in …

The current study investigated whether the deep properties or shallow features of behaviors
are implicitly expected to be consistent across members of highly entitative groups, by …

Humans sometimes perform actions which, at least superficially, appear suboptimal to the
goal they are trying to achieve. Despite being able to identify these irrational actions from an …

Social interaction requires us to recognize subtle cues in behavior, such as kinematic
differences in actions and gestures produced with different social intentions. Neuroscientific …