Understanding and responding to other people's actions is fundamental for social
interactions. Whereas many studies emphasize the importance of parietal and frontal …

The use of non-invasive brain stimulation is widespread in studies of human cognitive
neuroscience. This has led to some genuine advances in understanding perception and …

Survival prompts organisms to prepare adaptive behavior in response to environmental and
social threat. However, what are the specific features of the appearance of a conspecific that …

Recognizing others' social interactions is a crucial human ability. Using simple stimuli,
previous studies have shown that social interactions are selectively processed in the …

Dance is ubiquitous among humans and has received attention from several disciplines.
Ethnographic documentation suggests that dance has a signaling function in social …

Perception of others' bodies provides information that is useful for a number of important
social-cognitive processes. Evidence from neuroimaging methods has identified focal …

During aesthetically appealing visual experiences, visual content provides a basis for
computation of affectively tinged representations of aesthetic value. How this happens in the …

Humans observe actions performed by others in many different visual and social settings.
What features do we extract and attend when we view such complex scenes, and how are …

Navigating our complex social world requires processing the interactions we observe.
Recent psychophysical and neuroimaging studies provide parallel evidence that the human …

Perception, identification, and understanding of others' actions from motion information are
vital for our survival in the social world. A breakthrough in the understanding of action …