The discovery of mirror neurons in motor areas of the brain has led many to assume that our
ability to understand other people's behaviour partially relies on vicarious activations of …

Normal perception involves experiencing objects within perceptual scenes as real, as
existing in the world. This property of “perceptual presence” has motivated “sensorimotor …

In hypnotic responding, expectancies arising from imaginative suggestion drive striking
experiential changes (eg, hallucinations)—which are experienced as involuntary …

In general, social neuroscience research tends to focus on visual and auditory channels as
routes for social information. However, because the skin is the site of events and processes …

Completely revised and updated, this book focuses on sensory perceptual problems as
identified by individuals on the autism spectrum. Despite frequently being identified by …

Although synesthesia has been known about for 200 years, it is only in the past decade or
so that substantial progress has been made in studying it empirically and in understanding …

A little over a decade ago, Martino and Marks (Current Directions in Psychological Science
10: 61–65, 2001) put forward the influential claim that cases of intuitive matchings between …

We review the evidence that an ability to achieve a precise balance between representing
the self and representing other people is crucial in social interaction. This ability is required …

Understanding how self-representation is built, maintained and updated across the lifespan
is a fundamental challenge for cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Studies demonstrate …

When participants observed a rubber hand being touched, their sense of touch was
activated (rubber hand illusion: RHI). While this illusion might be caused by multi-modal …