Robots are increasingly envisaged as our future cohabitants. However, while considerable
progress has been made in recent years in terms of their technological realization, the ability …

This meta-analysis explores the role of the mirror and mentalizing systems in the
understanding of other people's action goals. Based on over 200 fMRI studies, this analysis …

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) repetition suppression, we explored
the selectivity of the human action perception system (APS), which consists of temporal …

Humans, being highly social creatures, rely heavily on the ability to perceive what others are
doing and to infer from gestures and expressions what others may be intending to do. These …

The human body, like the human face, is a rich source of socially relevant information about
other individuals. Evidence from studies of both humans and non-human primates points to …

Visual processing of biological motion (BM) produced by living organisms is of immense
value for successful daily-life activities and, in particular, for adaptive social behavior and …

Cognitive neuroscientists often study social cognition by using simple but socially relevant
stimuli, such as schematic faces or images of other people. Whilst this research is valuable …

Spatial neglect is a perplexing neuropsychological syndrome, in which patients fail to detect
(and/or respond to) stimuli located contralaterally to their (most often right) hemispheric …

Many social interactions rely upon mutual information exchange: one member of a pair
changes in response to the other while at the same time producing actions that alter the …

We compared two tasks that are widely used in research on mentalizing—false belief stories
and animations of rigid geometric shapes that depict social interactions—to investigate …