Animacy and the prediction of behaviour

Social-affective features drive human representations of observed actions

(2022) Diana C Dima et al.   eLife

Single-neuronal predictions of others’ beliefs in humans

(2021) Mohsen Jamali et al.   NATURE

Action Observation Responses Are Influenced by Movement Kinematics and Target Identity

(2021) Helen E Savaki et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

What Happened to Mirror Neurons?

(2021) Cecilia Heyes et al.   Perspectives on Psychological Science

Behavioral and neural representations en route to intuitive action understanding

(2021) Leyla Tarhan et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

What modulates the Mirror Neuron System during action observation?

(2021) David Kemmerer   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Social agent identity cells in the prefrontal cortex of interacting groups of primates

(2021) Raymundo Báez-Mendoza et al.   SCIENCE

The neural basis of predictive pursuit

(2020) Seng Bum Michael Yoo et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Predictive processing account of action perception: Evidence from effective connectivity in the action observation network

(2020) Burcu A. Urgen et al.   CORTEX

Breaking human social decision making into multiple components and then putting them together again

(2020) Shinsuke Suzuki et al.   CORTEX

Is There a ‘Social’ Brain? Implementations and Algorithms

(2020) Patricia L. Lockwood et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Social Cognition in the Age of Human–Robot Interaction

(2020) Anna Henschel et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Toward a hierarchical model of social cognition: A neuroimaging meta-analysis and integrative review of empathy and theory of mind.

(2020) Matthias Schurz et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

The brain represents people as the mental states they habitually experience

(2019) Mark A. Thornton et al.   Nature Communications

Perceiving animacy purely from visual motion cues involves intraparietal sulcus

(2019) Johannes Schultz et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Dissociable roles of left and right temporoparietal junction in strategic competitive interaction

(2019) Akitoshi Ogawa et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Using neural distance to predict reaction time for categorizing the animacy, shape, and abstract properties of objects

(2019) J. Brendan Ritchie et al.   Scientific Reports

Camouflage in a dynamic world

(2019) Innes C Cuthill et al.   Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Action Observation Areas Represent Intentions From Subtle Kinematic Features

(2018) Atesh Koul et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Modeling the Predictive Social Mind

(2018) Diana I. Tamir et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Reciprocity of social influence

(2018) Ali Mahmoodi et al.   Nature Communications

The application of computational models to social neuroscience: promises and pitfalls

(2018) Caroline J. Charpentier et al.   Social Neuroscience

Avoiding death by feigning death

(2018) John Skelhorn   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Social Brain Automatically Predicts Others' Future Mental States

(2018) Mark A. Thornton et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A causal account of the brain network computations underlying strategic social behavior

(2017) Christopher A Hill et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Perceiving social interactions in the posterior superior temporal sulcus

(2017) Leyla Isik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neural mechanisms mediating degrees of strategic uncertainty

(2017) Rosemarie Nagel et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

A predictive focus of gain modulation encodes target trajectories in insect vision

(2017) Steven D Wiederman et al.   eLife

Mirror Neurons in Monkey Premotor Area F5 Show Tuning for Critical Features of Visual Causality Perception

(2016) Vittorio Caggiano et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Anterior Cingulate Gyrus and Social Cognition: Tracking the Motivation of Others

(2016) Matthew A.J. Apps et al.   NEURON

Neural Basis of Strategic Decision Making

(2016) Daeyeol Lee et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Predictive decision making driven by multiple time-linked reward representations in the anterior cingulate cortex

(2016) Marco K. Wittmann et al.   Nature Communications

Decoding intentions from movement kinematics

(2016) Andrea Cavallo et al.   Scientific Reports

The swaying behavior ofExtatosoma tiaratum: motion camouflage in a stick insect?

(2015) Xue Bian et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The shaping of social perception by stimulus and knowledge cues to human animacy

(2015) Emily S. Cross et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Anterior Insula Tracks Behavioral Entropy during an Interpersonal Competitive Game

(2015) Hideyuki Takahashi et al.   PLoS One

Typical action perception and interpretation without motor simulation

(2015) Gilles Vannuscorps et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deconstructing and reconstructing theory of mind

(2015) Sara M. Schaafsma et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Emerging Object Representations in the Visual System Predict Reaction Times for Categorization

(2015) J. Brendan Ritchie et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Mirror neurons: From origin to function

(2014) Richard Cook et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Different impressions of other agents obtained through social interaction uniquely modulate dorsal and ventral pathway activities in the social human brain

(2014) Hideyuki Takahashi et al.   CORTEX

Seeing Jesus in toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia

(2014) Jiangang Liu et al.   CORTEX

Fractionating theory of mind: A meta-analysis of functional brain imaging studies

(2014) Matthias Schurz et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Theory of Mind: Did Evolution Fool Us?

(2014) Marie Devaine et al.   PLoS One

The Social Bayesian Brain: Does Mentalizing Make a Difference When We Learn?

(2014) Marie Devaine et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Strategic communication and behavioral coupling in asymmetric joint action

(2014) Cordula Vesper et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Reaction Time for Object Categorization Is Predicted by Representational Distance

(2013) Thomas A. Carlson et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Physiologically Inspired Model for the Visual Recognition of Transitive Hand Actions

(2013) F. Fleischer et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Parametric animacy percept evoked by a single moving dot mimicking natural stimuli

(2013) J. Schultz et al.   JOURNAL OF VISION

Brain activation related to the perception of minimal agency cues: The role of the mirror system

(2013) Marina Stosic et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Dissociating the Detection of Intentionality from Animacy in the Right Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus

(2012) T. Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

An Agent Independent Axis for Executed and Modeled Choice in Medial Prefrontal Cortex

(2012) Antoinette Nicolle et al.   NEURON

Detecting Deception in Movement: The Case of the Side-Step in Rugby

(2012) Sébastien Brault et al.   PLoS One

From simple innate biases to complex visual concepts

(2012) S. Ullman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Distinct Role of the Temporal-Parietal Junction in Predicting Socially Guided Decisions

(2012) R. M. Carter et al.   SCIENCE

Attributing intentions to random motion engages the posterior superior temporal sulcus

(2012) Su Mei Lee et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Distinct recruitment of temporo-parietal junction and medial prefrontal cortex in behavior understanding and trait identification

(2012) Ning Ma et al.   Social Neuroscience

The brain and behavior of the tentacled snake

(2011) Kenneth C. Catania   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Action understanding and active inference

(2011) Karl Friston et al.   BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS

Chasing vs. stalking: Interrupting the perception of animacy.

(2011) Tao Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE

Medial prefrontal cortex as an action-outcome predictor

(2011) William H Alexander et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Action observation and robotic agents: Learning and anthropomorphism

(2011) Clare Press   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Visual influence on path integration in darkness indicates a multimodal representation of large-scale space

(2011) L. Tcheang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How instructions modify perception: An fMRI study investigating brain areas involved in attributing human agency

(2010) James Stanley et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Exploring the neural correlates of goal-directed action and intention understanding

(2010) Elizabeth J. Carter et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Born Knowing: Tentacled Snakes Innately Predict Future Prey Behavior

(2010) Kenneth C. Catania   PLoS One

Neural processing of imminent collision in humans

(2010) J. Billington et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Neuronal Encoding of Human Kinematic Invariants during Action Observation

(2009) Antonino Casile et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

The psychophysics of chasing: A case study in the perception of animacy

(2009) Tao Gao et al.   COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Online mentalising investigated with functional MRI

(2009) Tilo Kircher et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Neural correlates of depth of strategic reasoning in medial prefrontal cortex

(2009) G. Coricelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Integration of Bimodal Looming Signals through Neuronal Coherence in the Temporal Lobe

(2008) Joost X. Maier et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cockroaches Keep Predators Guessing by Using Preferred Escape Trajectories

(2008) Paolo Domenici et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Associative learning of social value

(2008) Timothy E. J. Behrens et al.   NATURE

Neural correlates of mentalizing-related computations during strategic interactions in humans

(2008) A. N. Hampton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA