A great deal of research exists on the neural basis of theory-of-mind (ToM) or mentalizing.
Qualitative reviews on this topic have identified a mentalizing network composed of the …

Facial expressions are of eminent importance for social interaction as they convey
information about other individuals' emotions and social intentions. According to the …

The neuropeptide oxytocin enhances the processing of positive social stimuli and improves
the capacity to effectively attend the eye region of conspecifics. To investigate the neural …

Functional connections (FC) between the amygdala and cortical and subcortical regions
underlie a range of affective and cognitive processes. Despite the central role amygdala …

Basic tendencies to detect and respond to significant events are present in the simplest
single cell organisms and persist throughout all invertebrates and vertebrates. Within …

Anxious individuals exhibit threat biases at multiple levels of information processing. From a
developmental perspective, abnormal safety learning in childhood may establish threat …

Aversive events are typically more debilitating when they occur unpredictably than
predictably. Studies in humans and animals indicate that predictable and unpredictable …

Neuroscience research on the social evaluation of faces has accumulated over the last
decade, yielding divergent results. We used a meta-analytic technique, multi-level kernel …

Primates are remarkably adept at ranking each other within social hierarchies, a capacity
that is critical to successful group living. Surprisingly little, however, is understood about the …

Humans and other animals pay attention to other members of their groups to acquire
valuable social information about them, including information about their identity …