Gibson's notion of affordances refers to the opportunities for action that the environment
offers, and that the organism can act upon. A good decade later, the discovery of mirror …

Simulation theories predict that the observation of other's expressions modulates neural
activity in the same centers controlling their production. This hypothesis has been developed …

One important role of the TPJ is the contribution to perception of the global gist in
hierarchically organized stimuli where individual elements create a global visual percept …

Among social stimuli that trigger rapid reactions, body images occupy a prominent place.
Given that bodies carry information about other agents' intentions, actions and emotional …

The amygdala is believed to make invaluable contributions to visual emotion processing.
Yet how this subcortical body contributes to emotion perception across time is contended …