Human communication is a traditional topic of research in many disciplines such as
psychology, linguistics and philosophy, all of which mainly focused on language, gestures …

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 …

Synchronization has been identified as a key aspect in social bonding. While
synchronization could be maximized by increasing the predictability of an interaction, such …

Actions may be used to directly act on the world around us, or as a means of communication.
Effective communication requires the addressee to recognize the act as being …

Abstract “How” an action is performed is not solely determined by biomechanical constraints,
but it depends on the agent's intention, that is,“why” the action is performed. Recent findings …

Our daily human life is filled with a myriad of joint action moments, be it children playing,
adults working together (ie, team sports), or strangers navigating through a crowd. Joint …

Non-verbal communication is the basis of animal interactions. In dyadic leader–follower
interactions, leaders master the ability to carve their motor behaviour in order to 'signal'their …

Interpersonal synchrony–the tendency for social partners to temporally co-ordinate their
behaviour when interacting–is a ubiquitous feature of social interactions. Synchronous …

In daily life, we do not just move independently from how others move. Rather, the way we
move conveys information about our cognitive and affective attitudes toward our …

I evaluate several attempts to integrate standard theories of social cognition, either theory
theory or simulation theory, with aspects of interaction theory, and especially with the …