We advance a novel active inference model of the cognitive processing that underlies the
acquisition of a hierarchical action repertoire and its use for observation, understanding and …

In this paper, we consider the influence of Gibson's affordance theory on the design of
robotic agents. Affordance theory (and the ecological approach to agent design in general) …

The mere observation of pictures or words referring to manipulable objects is sufficient to
evoke their affordances since objects and their nouns elicit components of appropriate motor …

L'Embodied Cognition rappresenta la più grande novità nella psicologia cognitiva degli
ultimi vent'anni. Alla base di questo programma vi è l'idea che i processi cognitivi …

An extensive amount of evidence has documented a diminished ability to predict and
understand other people's action in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) …

Action understanding lies at the heart of social interaction. Prior research has often
conceptualized this capacity in terms of a motoric matching of observed actions to an action …

Watching others grasping and using objects activates an action observation network (AON),
including inferior frontal (IFC), anterior intraparietal (AIP), and somatosensory cortices (S1) …

Human success and even survival depends on our ability to predict what others will do by
guessing what they are thinking. If I accelerate, will he yield? If I propose, will she accept? If I …

Affordances, ie the opportunity of actions offered by the environment, are one of the central
research topics for the theoretical perspectives that view cognition as emerging from the …

Tool use in humans and hominins (ie, extant relatives to humans) is unique in several
respects. To date, no attempt has been made to review the main patterns of tool behavior …