This article argues that mirror neurons originate in sensorimotor associative learning and
therefore a new approach is needed to investigate their functions. Mirror neurons were …

Understanding and responding to other people's actions is fundamental for social
interactions. Whereas many studies emphasize the importance of parietal and frontal …

Is the human mind/brain composed of a set of highly specialized components, each carrying
out a specific aspect of human cognition, or is it more of a general-purpose device, in which …

Self-consciousness has mostly been approached by philosophical enquiry and not by
empirical neuroscientific study, leading to an overabundance of diverging theories and an …

Corporeal awareness is a difficult concept which refers to perception, knowledge and
evaluation of one's own body as well as of other bodies. We discuss here some …

Why do we feel tears well up when we see a loved one cry? Why do we wince when we see
other people hurt themselves? This review addresses these questions from the perspective …

Recent advances in social neuroscience research have unveiled the neurophysiological
correlates of race and intergroup processing. However, little is known about the neural …

Seeing an agent perform an action typically triggers a motor simulation of that action in the
observer's Mirror Neuron System (MNS). Over the past few years, it has become increasingly …

To further investigate the neural substrates of lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions,
we administered a battery of six tasks to 226 brain-damaged patients with widely distributed …

Visual-object processing culminates in inferior temporal cortex (IT). To assess the
organization of IT, we measured functional magnetic resonance imaging responses in alert …