Mirror neurons are a class of neurons, originally discovered in the premotor cortex of monkeys,
that discharge both when individuals perform a given motor act and when they observe …

Embodiment theory proposes that neural systems for perception and action are also engaged
during language comprehension. Previous neuroimaging and neurophysiological studies …

One of the most exciting events in neurosciences over the past few years has been the discovery
of a mechanism that unifies action perception and action execution. The essence of this …

Experiments in monkeys demonstrated that many parietal and premotor neurons coding a
specific motor act (eg, grasping) show a markedly different activation when this act is part of …

Our understanding of the functions of motor system evolved remarkably in the last 20 years.
This is the consequence not only of an increase in the amount of data on this system but …

Traditional analyses of language [1] emphasize an arbitrary correspondence between linguistic
symbols and their extensions in the world, but recent behavioral and neurophysiological […

Facial movements support a variety of functions in human behavior. They participate in
automatic somatic and visceral motor programs, they are essential in producing communicative …

It has been suggested that the deficit in understanding others’ intention in autism depends
on a malfunctioning of the mirror system. This malfunction could be due either to a deficit of …

It is well known that specific components of motor programs are automatically activated when
they are afforded by object related pragmatic features. Among these features the handle …

Developmental and cross-cultural studies show that finger counting represents one of the
basic number learning strategies. However, despite the ubiquity of such an embodied strategy, …