The concept of affordances indicates “action possibilities” as characterized by object
properties the environment provides to interacting organisms. Affordances relate to both …

Humans differ from other animals in the way they can skilfully and precisely operate or
invent tools to facilitate their everyday life. Tools have dominated our home, travel and work …

Action is a cover term used to refer to a large set of motor processes differing in domain
specificities (eg execution or observation). Here we review neuroimaging evidence on …

We describe a novel computational theory of how individuals segment perceptual
information into representations of events. The theory is inspired by recent findings in the …

An important feature of action understanding is that comprehenders segment the perceptual
stream into events. Event segmentation dynamically engages a network of brain regions that …

Human activity is structured by goals and subgoals. To understand an everyday activity, a
viewer must perceive its goal structure, and viewers may segment activity into units that …

The interaction between language and perception networks in the brain can hold the key to
the biological bases of language evolution. In language, every sentence is built around a …

Even though actions we observe in everyday life seem to unfold in a continuous manner,
they are automatically divided into meaningful chunks, that are single actions or segments …

The perception of everyday events is thought to imply the segmentation into discrete sub-
events. Involvement of dopaminergic networks in this process could relate to particular …

The present fMRI study investigated whether human observers spontaneously exploit the
statistical structure underlying continuous action sequences. In particular, we tested whether …