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 prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a critical role in the generation and regulation of emotion.
However, we lack an integrative framework for understanding how different emotion-related …

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

Highlights•Socio-affective and socio-cognitive processes are separable; behaviorally and
neurally.•The related neural networks co-activate and interact in complex social …

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 …

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 …

The idea of two separate attention networks in the human brain for the voluntary deployment
of attention and the reorientation to unexpected events, respectively, has inspired an …

Usage of the term 'theory of mind'(ToM) has exploded across fields ranging from
developmental psychology to social neuroscience and psychiatry research. However, its …

Network studies of large-scale brain connectivity have begun to reveal attributes that
promote the segregation and integration of neural information: communities and hubs …

Successful social interactions require both affect sharing (empathy) and understanding
others' mental states (Theory of Mind, ToM). As these two functions have mostly been …