Neuroscientific and psychological data suggest a close link between affordance and mirror
systems in the brain. However, we still lack a full understanding of both the individual …

The concept of affordances indicates “action possibilities” as characterized by object
properties the environment provides to interacting organisms. Affordances relate to both …

Over the last few years, the efforts to reveal through neuroscientific lens the relations
between the mind, body, and built environment have set a promising direction of using …

The mere observation of pictures or words referring to manipulable objects is sufficient to
evoke their affordances since objects and their nouns elicit components of appropriate motor …

Most of our daily activities take place in the physical world, which inherently imposes
physical constraints. In contrast, the digital world is very flexible, but usually isolated from its …

Nowadays there is the hope that neuroscientific findings will contribute to the improvement
of building design in order to create environments which satisfy man's demands. This can be …

The sensorimotor system plays a critical role in several cognitive processes. Here, we
review recent studies documenting this interplay at different levels. First, we concentrate on …

Detecting errors in one's own actions, and in the actions of others, is a crucial ability for
adaptable and flexible behavior. Studies show that specific EEG signatures underpin the …

Studies on affordances typically focus on single objects. We investigated whether
affordances are modulated by the context, defined by the relation between two objects and a …

The extended mind view and the embodied-grounded view of cognition and language are
typically considered as rather independent perspectives. In this paper we propose a …