Abstract Several models propose Motor Imagery, Action Observation, and Movement
Execution recruit the same brain regions. There is, however, no quantitative synthesis of the …

During social interactions, people tend to automatically align with, or mimic their interactor's
facial expressions, vocalizations, postures and other bodily states. Automatic mimicry might …

Ten years ago, Perspectives in Psychological Science published the Mirror Neuron Forum,
in which authors debated the role of mirror neurons in action understanding, speech …

The concept of empathy has received a lot of attention in the past few decades in public
media, academia, national and international politics, arts, ethics, health professions …

Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This
book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful …

A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and
philosophy of mind to issues in affective science. In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti …

It has been suggested that a key function of music during its development and spread
amongst human populations was its capacity to create and strengthen social bonds amongst …

Motor imagery (MI) or the mental simulation of action is now increasingly being studied
using neuroimaging techniques such as positron emission tomography and functional …

Robots are increasingly envisaged as our future cohabitants. However, while considerable
progress has been made in recent years in terms of their technological realization, the ability …

Humans can see and name thousands of distinct object and action categories, so it is
unlikely that each category is represented in a distinct brain area. A more efficient scheme …