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

It is now widely accepted that inter-brain synchronization is an important and inevitable
mechanism of interpersonal action coordination and social interaction behavior. This review …

Humans have a striking ability to coordinate their actions with each other to achieve joint
goals. The tight interpersonal coordination that characterizes joint actions is achieved …

Human expression is open-ended, versatile, and diverse, ranging from ordinary language
use to painting, from exaggerated displays of affection to micro-movements that aid …

Actions may be used to directly act on the world around us, or as a means of communication.
Effective communication requires the addressee to recognize the act as being …

For most of human history, face-to-face interactions have been the primary and most
fundamental way to build social relationships, and even in the digital era they remain the …

Previous research has demonstrated that people can reliably distinguish between actions
with different instrumental intentions on the basis of the kinematic signatures of these actions …

Action, gesture, and sign represent unique aspects of human communication that use form
and movement to convey meaning. Researchers typically use manual coding of video data …

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 …

During natural conversation, people must quickly understand the meaning of what the other
speaker is saying. This concerns not just the semantic content of an utterance, but also the …