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 …

Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia involves a broad array of nonsocial and social
cognitive domains. It is a core feature of the illness, and one with substantial implications for …

Does the brain think? Is it the creator of the world of experience, the constructor of the
subject? This widespread interpretation of the neurosciences is contrasted in this book with …

Deep Learning (DL), a groundbreaking branch of Machine Learning (ML), has emerged as a
driving force in both theoretical and applied Artificial Intelligence (AI). DL algorithms, rooted …

The recent Covid-19 pandemic has had significant psychological and social effects on the
population. Research has highlighted the impact on psychological well-being of the most …

Social interactions can trigger emotional contagion between individuals resulting in
behavioral synchrony. Emotional contagion can be a very effective and attractive strategy in …

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers
viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the …

Empathy is an integral part of socioemotional well-being, but recent research has
highlighted some of its downsides. Here we examine literature that establishes when, how …

Recent research on empathy in humans and other mammals seeks to dissociate emotional
and cognitive empathy. These forms, however, remain interconnected in evolution, across …

Current approaches to empathetic response generation view the set of emotions expressed
in the input text as a flat structure, where all the emotions are treated uniformly. We argue …