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

Highlights•Provides an up-to-date overview of human brain areas implicated in
actions.•Reviews new advances from brain decoding (multivariate pattern analysis …

Visual representations of bodies, in addition to those of faces, contribute to the recognition of
con-and heterospecifics, to action recognition, and to nonverbal communication. Despite its …

How neural specificity for distinct conceptual knowledge categories arises is central for
understanding the organization of semantic memory in the human brain. Although there is a …

The human brain contains multiple hand-selective areas, in both the sensorimotor and
visual systems. Could our brain repurpose neural resources, originally developed for …

People interact with entities in the environment in distinct and categorizable ways (eg,
kicking is making contact with foot). We can recognize these action categories across …

Humans and other primate species are experts at recognizing body expressions. To
understand the underlying perceptual mechanisms, we computed postural and kinematic …

Emotion perception research has largely been dominated by work on facial expressions, but
emotion is also strongly conveyed from the body. Research exploring emotion recognition …

Functional neuroimaging studies have implicated the left lateral occipitotemporal cortex
(LOTC) in both tool and hand perception but the functional role of this region is not fully …

In daily life, we frequently encounter actions performed by other people. Here we aimed to
examine the key categories and features underlying the organization of a wide range of …