Social cognition in humans is distinguished by psychological processes that allow us to
make inferences about what is going on inside other people—their intentions, feelings, and …

We are an intensely social species—it has been argued that our social nature defines what
makes us human, what makes us conscious or what gave us our large brains. As a new …

We found that exposure of mice and rats to male but not female experimenters produces
pain inhibition. Male-related stimuli induced a robust physiological stress response that …

Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been
overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty …

The attractiveness of a face is a highly salient social signal, influencing mate choice and
other social judgements. In this study, we used event-related functional magnetic resonance …

Sexual behavior is critical to species survival, yet comparatively little is known about the
neural mechanisms in the human brain. Here we systematically review the existing human …

In the last fifteen years, functional neuroimaging techniques have been used to investigate
the neuroanatomical correlates of sexual arousal in healthy human subjects. In most studies …

Olfaction is a critical sensory modality that allows living things to acquire chemical
information from the external world. The olfactory system processes two major classes of …