Natural human interaction requires us to produce and process many different signals,
including speech, hand and head gestures, and facial expressions. These communicative …

The view put forward here is that visual bodily signals play a core role in human
communication and the coordination of minds. Critically, this role goes far beyond referential …

This study evaluated participant self-reported appraisal of social interactions with another
person in virtual reality (VR) where their conversational partner was represented by a …

The nervous system is sensitive to statistical regularities of the external world and forms
internal models of these regularities to predict environmental dynamics. Given the inherently …

The vast expansion of research in human-robot interactions (HRI) these last decades has
been accompanied by the design of increasingly skilled robots for engaging in joint actions …

While evidence abounds that motor synchrony is a powerful form of 'social glue'for those
involved, we have yet to understand how observers perceive motor synchrony: can …

Sensorimotor signaling is a key mechanism underlying coordination in humans. The
increasing presence of artificial agents, including robots, in everyday contexts, will make …

Collaborative robots are currently deployed in professional environments, in collaboration
with professional human operators, hel** to strike the right balance between …

Despite numerous findings on the sophisticated inferences that human infants draw from
observing third-party hel** interactions, currently there is no theoretical account of how …

When performing joint actions, people rely on common ground–shared information that
provides the required basis for mutual understanding. Common ground can be based on …