In recent decades, the ability to represent others' mental states (ie, theory of mind) has
gained particular attention in various disciplines ranging from ethology to cognitive …

Is it possible to perceive others' mental states? Are mental states visible in others' behavior?
In contrast to the traditional view that mental states are hidden and not directly accessible to …

Cooperation forms the basis of our society and becomes increasingly essential during times
of globalization. However, despite technological developments people still prefer to meet …

The kinematics of human actions are influenced by the social context in which they are
performed. Motion-capture technology has allowed researchers to build up a detailed and …

To study how people anticipate others' actions, we designed a competitive reaching task.
Subjects faced each other separated by a Plexiglas screen and their finger movements in …

Introduction Cooperation and competition are common in social interactions. It is not clear
how individual differences in personality may predict performance strategies under these …

The recognition of others' object-directed actions is known to involve the decoding of both
the visual kinematics of the action and the action goal. Yet whether action recognition is first …

The successful unfolding of many social interactions relies on our capacity to predict other
people's action goals, whether these are proximal (ie, immediate) or distal (ie, upcoming) …

Voluntary actions towards manipulable objects are usually performed with a particular motor
goal (ie, a task-specific object-target-effector interaction) and in a particular social context …

Several models of action recognition acknowledge the involvement of distinct grip and goal
representations in the processing of others' actions. Yet, their functional role and temporal …