Although generally studied in isolation, language and action often co-occur in everyday life.
Here we investigated one particular form of simultaneous language and action, namely …

Co-speech gestures embody a form of manual action that is tightly coupled to the language
system. As such, the co-occurrence of speech and co-speech gestures is an excellent …

During language comprehension, listeners use the global semantic representation from
previous sentence or discourse context to immediately integrate the meaning of each upcoming …

How humans understand the intention of others' actions remains controversial. Some
authors have suggested that intentions are recognized by means of a motor simulation of the …

… Using fMRI, Willems and colleagues assessed the neural integration of semantic information
from spoken words and from cospeech gestures into a preceding sentence context (…

According to theories of embodied cognition, understanding a verb like throw involves
unconsciously simulating the action of throwing, using areas of the brain that support motor …

Left-handers are often excluded from study cohorts in neuroscience and neurogenetics in
order to reduce variance in the data. However, recent investigations have shown that the …

Impaired understanding of others' sensations and emotions as well as abnormal experience
of their own emotions and sensations is frequently reported in individuals with Autism …

The notion of prediction is studied in cognitive neuroscience with increasing intensity. We
investigated the neural basis of 2 distinct aspects of word prediction, derived from information …

Several studies indicate that both posterior superior temporal sulcus/middle temporal gyrus (pSTS/MTG)
and left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) are involved in integrating information from …