Selective attention and the processing of observed actions.

我们理解他人手势和面部表情的能力是社交互动的重要组成部分。感知他人行为的能力缺陷与自闭症和失用症等临床疾病有关。我们将研究大脑的特定区域如何运作，以处理和识别我们观察到的动作。这是理解和重新定义诸如失用症等涉及动作和姿势感知缺陷的临床疾病的关键的第一步。

Our ability to understand the hand and face gestures of others is a crucial part of social interaction. Deficits in the ability to perceive others' actions are associated with clinical disorders such as autism and apraxia. We will examine how specific regions of the brain operate to process and recognise actions that we observe. This is a crucial first-step toward understanding and redefining clinical disorders such as apraxia that involve deficits in the perception of actions and gestures.