A fundamental issue in cognitive neuroscience is how the brain encodes others' actions and
intentions. In recent years, a potential advance in our knowledge on this issue is the …

Mu suppression studies have been widely used to infer the activity of the human mirror
neuron system (MNS) in a number of processes, ranging from action understanding …

Why do people go to the movies? What does it mean to watch a movie? To what extent is the
perceived fictional nature of movies different from our daily perception of the real world? We …

One may have experienced his or her footsteps unconsciously synchronize with the
footsteps of a friend while walking together, or heard an audience's clapping hands naturally …

People engaged in interactive decision making rely on prior decision behaviors by other
persons to make new choices and they exhibit inter-brain synchrony between each other …

When we feel connected or engaged during social behavior, are our brains in fact “in sync”
in a formal, quantifiable sense? Most studies addressing this question use highly controlled …

Folk psychology advocates the existence of gender differences in socio-cognitive functions
such as 'reading'the mental states of others or discerning subtle differences in body …

Theoretical perspectives suggest that the mirror neuron system (MNS) is an important
neurobiological contributor to empathy, yet empirical support is mixed. Here, we adopt a …

Objective In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that both movement execution and
observation induce parallel modulations of alpha, beta, and gamma electrocorticographic …

Face-to-face communication works multimodally. Not only do we employ vocal and facial
expressions; body language provides valuable information as well. Here we focused on …