About 40 years ago, James J. Gibson coined the term “affordance” to describe the action
possibilities offered to an animal by the environment with reference to the animal's action …

Spastic paresis follows chronic disruption of the central execution of volitional command.
Motor function in patients with spastic paresis is subjected over time to three fundamental …

Concepts are the elementary units of reason and linguistic meaning. They are conventional
and relatively stable. As such, they must somehow be the result of neural activity in the brain …

The distinction between dorsal and ventral visual processing streams, first proposed by
Ungerleider and Mishkin (1982) and later refined by Milner and Goodale (1995) has been …

Recent studies of emotion mindreading reveal that for three emotions, fear, disgust, and
anger, deficits in face-based recognition are paired with deficits in the production of the …

Research on action simulation identifies brain areas that are active while imagining or
performing simple overlearned actions. Are areas engaged during imagined movement …

Tool use is a defining feature of human species. Therefore, a fundamental issue is to
understand the cognitive bases of human tool use. Given that people cannot use tools …

The behaviors involved in complex human tool use cut across boundaries traditionally
drawn between social, cognitive, perceptual and motor processes. Longstanding …

Experiments using functional neuroimaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation in
humans have revealed regions of the parietal lobes that are specialized for particular …

Evidence for a dichotomy between the planning of an action and its on-line control in
humans is reviewed. This evidence suggests that planning and control each serve a …