From early in life, infants watch other people's actions. How do young infants come to make
sense of actions they observe? Here, we review empirical findings on the development of …

It has been proposed that already in infancy, imitative learning plays a pivotal role in the
acquisition of knowledge and abilities. Yet the cognitive mechanisms underlying the …

Abstract The Theory of Event Coding (TEC) has influenced research on action and
perception across the past two decades. It integrates several seminal empirical phenomena …

Over the past decades cognitive neuroscience's renewed interest in action has intensified
the search of principles explaining how the cognitive system links perception to action and …

Social transmission of knowledge is one of the reasons for human evolutionary success, and
it has been suggested that already human infants possess eminent social learning abilities …

When performing jointly on a task, human agents are assumed to represent their coactor's
share of this task, and research in various joint action paradigms has focused on …

Anticipations of future sensory events have the potential of priming motor actions that would
typically cause these events. Such effect anticipations are generally assumed to rely on …

Understanding and defining the meaning of “action” is substantial for robotics research. This
becomes utterly evident when aiming at equip** autonomous robots with robust …

We investigated whether stimuli are integrated with responses that are merely observed, but
not executed by oneself, and examined the moderating role of mutual dependency between …

According to ideomotor theory, people use bidirectional associations between movements
and their effects for action selection and initiation. Our experiments examined how verbal …