The Cognition, Motion and Neuroscience Laboratory at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, investigates how movement encodes and transmits information about cognitive states, bridging the gap between behaviour, cognition, and neural activity.

Understanding other people’s mental states, such as their beliefs, intentions, or emotions, is a key skill for navigating our social environment; from anticipating what someone is going to do next, to interpreting communicative or social gestures, to deciding whether or not to collaborate with someone all rely on our ability to understand the inner mental states of other people. Research in our lab focuses on how information about mental states is conveyed through movement kinematics, and how observers read and parse this information to understand others’ minds.

The goal of our research programme is to develop new quantitative methods and use them for generating and testing new hypotheses about the mechanisms underlying the kinematic transmission of information, how these mechanisms develop, and how they can go awry in brain disorders.

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