For humans, like many animal species, survival depends on effective social functioning.
Social skills facilitate our access to sustenance, protection and mates, and socially adept …

The ability to coordinate our actions with those of others is crucial for our success as
individuals and as a species. Progress in understanding the cognitive and neural processes …

An essential guide to designing, conducting, and analyzing event-related potential (ERP)
experiments, completely updated for this edition. The event-related potential (ERP) …

When performing tasks, humans are thought to adopt task sets that configure moment-to-
moment data processing. Recently developed mixed blocked/event-related designs allow …

Our ability to acknowledge and recognise our own identity-our'self'-is a characteristic
doubtless unique to humans. Where does this feeling come from? How does the …

We combined psychophysical and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies to investigate
the dynamics of action anticipation and its underlying neural correlates in professional …

Successful goal-directed behavior requires not only correct action selection, planning, and
execution but also the ability to flexibly adapt behavior when performance problems occur or …

When two or more people coordinate their actions in space and time to produce a joint
outcome, they perform a joint action. The perceptual, cognitive, and motor processes that …

The notion that there is a 'social brain'in humans specialized for social interactions has
received considerable support from brain imaging and, to a lesser extent, from lesion …

Metacognition concerns the processes by which we monitor and control our own cognitive
processes. It can also be applied to others, in which case it is known as mentalizing. Both …