Social-cognitive processes facilitate the use of environmental cues to understand others,
and to be understood by others. Animal models provide vital insights into the neural …

The frontopolar cortex (FPC) of primates appeared as a main innovation in the evolution of
anthropoid primates and it has been placed at the top of the prefrontal hierarchy. The only …

Although intense research effort is seeking to address which brain areas fire and connect to
each other to produce complex behaviors in a few living primates, little is known about their …

Conflict management entails preventing and repairing damages resulting from social
conflicts. While previous research has emphasized post-conflict actions like reconciliation …

Making decisions based on the actions of others is critical to daily interpersonal interactions.
We investigated the representations of other's actions at single neural level in posterior …

While brain research over the past decades has shed light on the neural correlates of social
cognition and behavior in human and non-human primates, most of this research has been …

Many neurons in the premotor cortex show firing rate modulation whether the subject
performs an action or observes another individual performing a similar action. Although such …

In action monitoring, ie, evaluating an outcome of our behavior, a reward prediction error
signal is calculated as the difference between actual and predicted outcomes and is used to …

The frontal lobe of primates' brain is most extensively developed among animal species.
Frontal lobe syndrome is characterized by the inability to plan (Shallice and Burgess, 1991; …