Neuroscientific and psychological data suggest a close link between affordance and mirror
systems in the brain. However, we still lack a full understanding of both the individual …

Research has shown that the brain is constantly making predictions about future events.
Theories of prediction in perception, action and learning suggest that the brain serves to …

Skepticism has been expressed concerning the possibility to understand others' intentions
by simply observing their movements: since a number of different intentions may have …

The mere observation of pictures or words referring to manipulable objects is sufficient to
evoke their affordances since objects and their nouns elicit components of appropriate motor …

To achieve a seamless human-robot collaboration, it is crucial that robots express their
intentions without perturbating or interrupting the task that a human partner is performing at …

Abstract concepts (ACs, eg 'justice') are more complex compared with concrete concepts
(CCs)(eg 'table'). Indeed, they do not possess a single object as a referent, they assemble …

Affordances, ie the opportunity of actions offered by the environment, are one of the central
research topics for the theoretical perspectives that view cognition as emerging from the …

In daily life, we do not just move independently from how others move. Rather, the way we
move conveys information about our cognitive and affective attitudes toward our …

We investigated how the reach-to-grasp movement is influenced by the presence of another
person (friend or non-friend), who was either invisible (behind) or located in different …

Majority opinions are often observed in the process of social interaction in online
communities, but few studies have addressed this issue with empirical data. To identify an …