Our actions affect the behavior of other people in predictable ways. In the present article, we
describe a theoretical framework for action control in social contexts that we call sociomotor …

It has been proposed that already in infancy, imitative learning plays a pivotal role in the
acquisition of knowledge and abilities. Yet the cognitive mechanisms underlying the …

Differences in social attention development begin to be apparent in the 6th to 12th month of
development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and theoretically reflect …

Short-term bindings between responses and events in the environment ensure efficient
behavioral control. This notion holds true for two particular types of binding: bindings …

Human eye gaze conveys an enormous amount of socially relevant information, and the
rapid assessment of gaze direction is of particular relevance in order to adapt behavior …

Human habits are widely assumed to result from stimulus-response (SR) associations that
are formed if one frequently and consistently does the same thing in the same situation …

Anticipations of future sensory events have the potential of priming motor actions that would
typically cause these events. Such effect anticipations are generally assumed to rely on …

Nine-month-olds start to perform sequential actions. Yet, it remains largely unknown how
they acquire and control such actions. We studied infants' sequential-action control by …

Theories of embodied simulation hold that mental processes are determined by the specific
form of the human nervous system and body, and their interaction with the external, physical …

Gaze control is an important component of social communication, eg to direct someone's
attention. While previous research on gaze interaction has mainly focused on the gaze …