Along with the increased interest in and volume of social cognition research, there has been
higher awareness of a lack of agreement on the concepts and taxonomy used to study social …

Background: New research suggests that, rather than representing a core feature of autism
spectrum disorder (ASD), emotional processing difficulties reflect co-occurring alexithymia …

Objective Twenty-five years ago, this journal published two articles reporting the
development and initial validation of the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). Since …

We meta-analyzed imaging studies on theory of mind and formed individual task groups
based on stimuli and instructions. Overlap in brain activation between all task groups was …

The ability to represent mental states (theory of mind [ToM]) is crucial in understanding
individual differences in social ability and social impairments evident in conditions such as …

It is widely accepted that autism is associated with disordered emotion processing and, in
particular, with deficits of emotional reciprocity such as impaired emotion recognition and …

Alexithymia is a personality construct characterized by altered emotional awareness which
has been gaining diagnostic prevalence in a range of neuropsychiatric disorders, with …

The problem of the self has been of increasing interest in recent neuroscience. Brain
imaging studies have raised the question of whether neural activity in cortical midline …

Alexithymia refers to difficulties identifying and describing one's emotions. Growing evidence
suggests that alexithymia is a key transdiagnostic risk factor. Despite its clinical importance …

This meta-analysis explores the role of the cerebellum in social cognition. Recent meta-
analyses of neuroimaging studies since 2008 demonstrate that the cerebellum is only …