The mirror mechanism is a basic brain mechanism that transforms sensory representations
of others' behaviour into one's own motor or visceromotor representations concerning that …

Our understanding of the functions of motor system evolved remarkably in the last 20 years.
This is the consequence not only of an increase in the amount of data on this system but …

Primate cognition requires interaction processing. Interactions can reveal otherwise hidden
properties of intentional agents, such as thoughts and feelings, and of inanimate objects …

Human ventrolateral frontal cortex (vlFC) is identified with cognitive processes such as
language and cognitive flexibility. The relationship between it and the vlFC of other primates …

Mirror neurons are a specific type of visuomotor neuron that discharge both when a monkey
executes a motor act and when it observes a similar motor act performed by another …

The ventral visual stream is conceived as a pathway for object recognition. However, we
also recognize the actions an object can be involved in. Here, we show that action …

Spike-timing-dependent plasticity is considered the neurophysiological basis of Hebbian
learning and has been shown to be sensitive to both contingency and contiguity between …

In this review, we propose that the neural basis for the spontaneous, diversified human tool
use is an area devoted to the execution and observation of tool actions, located in the left …

The agranular architecture of motor cortex lacks a functional interpretation. Here, we
consider a 'predictive coding'account of this unique feature based on asymmetries in …

The ability to extract deep structures from auditory sequences is a fundamental prerequisite
of language acquisition. Using fMRI in untrained macaques and humans, we investigated …