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 …

The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) has been implicated in a variety of social,
cognitive, and affective functions that are commonly disrupted in mental illness. In this …

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 …

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 …

Despite over two decades of neuroimaging research, a unanimous definition of the pattern
of structural variation associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has yet to be found …

Initially thought of as a unitary ability, empathy has been more recently considered to consist
of 2 components (ie, an affective and a cognitive component). The Basic Empathy Scale …

There is much interest in the claim that dysfunction of the mirror neuron system in individuals
with autism spectrum condition causes difficulties in social interaction and communication …

Anxiety is one of the most common clinical problems among children, adolescents, and
adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet we know little about its etiology in the …

To a large extent, the human infant is socialized through the acquisition of a specific
cognitive mechanism known as theory of mind (ToM), a term which is currently used to …

Empathy is an essential component of human social life. It requires the ability to understand
another's mental state and respond with an appropriate emotion or action. Individuals with …