Neurotypical (NT) individuals and individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) make
different judgments of social traits from others' faces; they also exhibit different social …

The causal role of the cerebral hemispheres in positive and negative emotion processing
remains uncertain. The Right Hemisphere Hypothesis proposes right hemispheric …

Impressive progress has been made in developing companion Socially Interactive Agents
(SIAs) that provide companionship and reduce loneliness. However, recent works focus on …

In this chapter, we selectively review the literature investigating how culture affects memory
and perception. The chapter tries to capture some of the ways that culture and life …

An emerging body of research has demonstrated that facial color can influence a range of
social judgments. The current article reviews facial color for three interconnected lines of …

Reverse correlation is an influential psychophysical paradigm that uses a participant's
responses to randomly varying images to build a classification image (CI), which is …

Globally, 1 in 160 children has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Problems with joint
attention (JA) are core features of ASDs. Here, we investigate how typically developing (TD) …

Smiles are universal but nuanced facial expressions that are most frequently used in face-to-
face communications, typically indicating amusement but sometimes conveying negative …

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in perception, evaluation, and memory for
social interactions from a third-person perspective. One intriguing finding is a spatial …

This fMRI study examines the role of local and global motion information in facial
movements during exposure to novel dynamic face stimuli. We found that synchronous …