To interact with the world, we have to make sense of the continuous sensory input conveying
information about our environment. A recent surge of studies has investigated the processes …

The sensorimotor system plays a critical role in several cognitive processes. Here, we
review recent studies documenting this interplay at different levels. First, we concentrate on …

Successful decision making critically involves metacognitive processes such as monitoring
and control of our decision process. Metacognition enables agents to modify ongoing …

Affordances, ie the opportunity of actions offered by the environment, are one of the central
research topics for the theoretical perspectives that view cognition as emerging from the …

Metacognitive abilities allow us to adjust ongoing behavior and modify future decisions in
the absence of external feedback. Although metacognition is critical in many daily life …

Recent findings demonstrated that object perception is affected by the competition between
action representations. Simultaneous activation of distinct structural (“grasp-to-move”) and …

Previous work suggests that perception of an object automatically facilitates actions related
to object grasping and manipulation. Recently, the notion of automaticity has been …

Affordances, the opportunities for action offered by the environment to an agent, are vital for
meaningful behaviour and exist in every interaction with the environment. There is an …

Although observing other's gaze and body movements provides a crucial source of
information to successfully interact with other people, it remains unclear whether observers …

Object perception and action are closely interrelated: Various grasping components are
evoked when perceiving visual objects (“object affordances”). Yet little is known about the …