A fundamental issue in cognitive neuroscience is how the brain encodes others' actions and
intentions. In recent years, a potential advance in our knowledge on this issue is the …

Studying human infants will increase our understanding of the nature, origins and function of
neural mirroring mechanisms. Human infants are prolific imitators. Infant imitation indicates …

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 …

Beta activity is thought to play a critical role in sensorimotor processes. However, little is
known about how activity in this frequency band develops. Here, we investigated the …

Shared knowledge and interpersonal coordination are prerequisites for most forms of social
behavior. Influential approaches to joint action have conceptualized these capacities in …

Interpersonal motor alignment is a ubiquitous behavior in daily social life. It is a building
block for higher social cognition, including empathy and mentalizing and promotes positive …

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

A foundational aspect of early social–emotional development is the ability to detect and
respond to the actions of others who are coordinating their behavior with that of the self …

Bidirectional action-effect associations play a fundamental role in intentional action control
and the development of the mirror neuron system. However, it has been questioned if infants …

From birth onward, social interaction is central to our everyday lives. Our ability to seek out
social partners, flexibly navigate and learn from social interactions, and develop social …