Many human behaviours and pathologies have been attributed to the putative mirror neuron
system, a neural system that is active during both the observation and execution of actions …

Natural human interaction requires us to produce and process many different signals,
including speech, hand and head gestures, and facial expressions. These communicative …

A key component of social understanding is the ability to read intentions from movements.
But how do we discern intentions in others' actions? What kind of intention information is …

A persistent criticism of radical embodied cognitive science is that it will be impossible to
explain “real cognition” without invoking mental representations. This paper provides an …

Research on reach-to-grasp movements generally concentrates on kinematics values that
are expression of maxima, in particular the maximum aperture of the hand and the peak of …

The discovery of mirror neurons revived interest in motor theories of perception, fostering a
number of new studies as well as controversies. In particular, the degree of motor specificity …

In everyday-life scenarios, prior expectations provided by the context in which actions are
embedded support action prediction. However, it is still unclear how newly learned action …

Unlike dominant cognitivist theories that take perceptual learning to be a process of
enriching sensory stimulation with previous knowledge, ecological psychologists take it to …

Previous studies have shown that contextual information may aid in guessing the intention
underlying others' actions in conditions of perceptual ambiguity. Here, we aimed to evaluate …

Previous studies showed that observing deceptive actions modulates the activity of the
observer's motor system. However, it is unclear whether this modulation reflects the coding …