The most dominant theory of human social cognition, the theory of mind hypothesis,
emphasizes our ability to infer the mental states of others. After having represented the …

Interpersonal motor alignment is a ubiquitous behavior in daily social life. It is a building
block for higher social cognition, including empathy and mentalizing and promotes positive …

Despite being able to rapidly and accurately infer their own and other peoples' visual
perspectives, healthy adults experience difficulty ignoring the irrelevant perspective when …

Actions can be physically executed, observed, imagined, or simply thought about. Unifying
mental processes, such as simulation, emulation, or predictive processing, are thought to …

Research has observed evidence for both hypo-(supposedly due to a broken mirror neuron
system) and hyper-(thought to be the result of deficits in adaptive control) imitation in autism …

Understanding the actions of other people is a key component of social interaction. This
paper used an electroencephalography and functional near infrared spectroscopy (EEG …

Background: Understanding the action intentions of others is important for social and human-
robot interactions. Recently, many state-of-the-art approaches have been proposed for …

Classification of action intention understanding is important for intelligent human-robot
interaction research, and feature extraction is one of the key factors. In recent years, many …

Automatic imitation, in which one person's movement is affected by the observation of
another person's movements, has been widely reported. However, it remains unclear how …

Children imitate others for different reasons: To learn from others and to reach social goals
such as affiliation or prosociality. So far, imitative acts have been measured using diverging …