The mirror mechanism is a basic brain mechanism that transforms sensory representations
of others' behaviour into one's own motor or visceromotor representations concerning that …

In primates, neural mechanisms for controlling skilled hand actions primarily rely on
sensorimotor transformations. These transformations are mediated by circuits linking specific …

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 …

Parental mentalizing–the parent's ability to envision the child's mental states (such as
desires, thoughts, or wishes)–has been argued to underlie a parent's ability to respond …

Along with the understanding of the goal of an action (“what” is done) and the intention
underlying it (“why” it is done), social interactions largely depend on the appraisal of the …

Difficulties in the social domain and motor anomalies have been widely investigated in
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, they have been generally considered as …

Movement perception and its role in aesthetic experience have been often studied, within
empirical aesthetics, in relation to the human body. No such specificity has been defined in …

The number of industrial robots and collaborative robots on manufacturing shopfloors has
been rapidly increasing over the past decades. However, research on industrial robot …

Timbre plays an essential role in transmitting musical affect, and in recent years, our
understanding of emotional expression in music has been enriched by contributions from …

Vitality form is a term, originally introduced by, to describe “how” an action is performed. The
capacity to perceive the vitality form of others' actions is a fundamental element of social …