Mirror neurons (MNs) were first described in a seminal paper in 1992 as a class of monkey
premotor cells discharging during both action execution and observation. Despite their …

The traditional view on the cerebellum is that it controls motor behavior. Although recent
work has revealed that the cerebellum supports also nonmotor functions such as cognition …

Ten years ago, Perspectives in Psychological Science published the Mirror Neuron Forum,
in which authors debated the role of mirror neurons in action understanding, speech …

Individuals with schizophrenia exhibit impaired social cognition, which manifests as
difficulties in identifying emotions, feeing connected to others, inferring people's thoughts …

The mirror mechanism is a basic brain mechanism that transforms sensory representations
of others' behaviour into one's own motor or visceromotor representations concerning that …

The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is implicated in a broad range of behaviors and
cognitive processes, but it has been unclear what contribution, if any, the ACC makes to …

The multimodal properties of the human somatosensory system continue to be unravelled.
There is mounting evidence that one of these submodalities—touch—has another …

Abstract Theory of mind (ToM) is an important skill that refers broadly to the capacity to
understand the mental states of others. A large number of neuroimaging studies have …

Despite increasing empirical and theoretical work on empathy, particularly on the content of
empathic representations, there is a relative lack of consensus regarding the information …

Owing to advances in neuroimaging technology, the past couple of decades have witnessed
a surge of research on brain mechanisms that underlie human cognition. Despite the …