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 …

Seeing the interactions between other people is a critical part of our everyday visual
experience, but recognizing the social interactions of others is often considered outside the …

Based on Francesca Happé's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological
Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary …

Autism is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairments in social
communication and interaction and by repetitive patterns of behavior, interests and activities …

Altered sensory processing has been an important feature of the clinical descriptions of
autism spectrum disorder (ASD). There is evidence that sensory dysregulation arises early …

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 …

Social cognition is a complex process that requires the integration of a wide variety of
behaviors, including salience, reward-seeking, motivation, knowledge of self and others …

The primary goal of the Human Connectome Project (HCP) is to delineate the typical
patterns of structural and functional connectivity in the healthy adult human brain. However …

Humans have a striking ability to infer meaning from even the sparsest and most abstract
forms of narratives. At the same time, flexibility in the form of a narrative is matched by …