Many studies have demonstrated that training utilizing action observation and/or motor
imagery improves motor performance. These two techniques are widely used in sports and …

Successful mindreading entails both the ability to think about what others know or believe,
and to use this knowledge to generate predictions about how mental states will influence …

The ability to predict the actions of others is quintessential for effective social interactions,
particularly in competitive contexts (eg in sport) when knowledge about upcoming …

According to the predictive coding (PC) theory, the brain is constantly engaged in predicting
its upcoming states and refining these predictions through error signals. Despite extensive …

When watching another person's actions, a network of sensorimotor brain regions,
collectively termed the action observation network (AON), is engaged. Previous research …

Motor imagery (MI) and action observation (AO) are considered effective cognitive tools for
motor learning, but little work directly compared their cortical activation correlate in relation …

There are cells in our motor cortex that fire both when we perform and when we observe
similar actions. It has been suggested that these perceptual‐motor couplings in the brain …

Past research demonstrates that we are more likely to positively evaluate a stimulus if we
have had previous experience with that stimulus. This has been shown for judgment of …

Although it is undeniable that the motor system is recruited when people observe others'
actions, the inferences that the brain generates from motor activation and the mechanisms …

Predicting the actions of other individuals is crucial for our daily interactions. Recent
evidence suggests that the prediction of object-directed arm and full-body actions employs …