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 …

What the cerebellum does to sensorimotor and vestibular control, it also does to cognition,
emotion, and autonomic function. This hypothesis is based on the theories of dysmetria of …

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 …

Anxiety disorders are a significant problem in the community, and recent neuroimaging
research has focused on determining the brain circuits that underlie them. Research on the …

It is obvious that emotions are real, but the question is what kind of “real” are they? In this
article, I outline a theoretical approach where emotions are a part of social reality. I propose …

Disgust is an evolved psychological system for protecting organisms from infection through
disease avoidant behaviour. This 'behavioural immune system', present in a diverse array of …

▪ Abstract A category of stimuli of great importance for primates, humans in particular, is that
formed by actions done by other individuals. If we want to survive, we must understand the …

Face perception, perhaps the most highly developed visual skill in humans, is mediated by a
distributed neural system in humans that is comprised of multiple, bilateral regions. We …

Background: Most of our social interactions involve perception of emotional information from
the faces of other people. Furthermore, such emotional processes are thought to be aberrant …

Spontaneous mimicry appears fundamental to emotional perception and contagion,
especially when it involves facial emotional expressions. Here we cover recent evidence on …