The human social brain is complex. Current knowledge fails to define the neurobiological
processes underlying social behaviour involving the (patho-) physiological mechanisms that …

Social behaviors, how individuals act cooperatively and competitively with conspecifics, are
widely seen across species. Rodents display various social behaviors, and many different …

Music has existed in human societies since prehistory, perhaps because it allows
expression and regulation of emotion and evokes pleasure. In this review, we present …

Parental care, including feeding and protection of young, is essential for the survival as well
as mental and physical well-being of the offspring. A large variety of parental behaviors has …

Animals evaluate and respond to their social environment with adaptive decisions.
Revealing the neural mechanisms of such decisions is a major goal in biology. We analyzed …

The ventral pallidum (VP) plays a critical role in the processing and execution of motivated
behaviors. Yet this brain region is often overlooked in published discussions of the …

Social feelings have conceptual and empirical connections with affect and emotion. In this
review, we discuss how they relate to cognition, emotion, behavior and well-being. We …

Emotional contagion is the most ancestral form of empathy. We tested to what extent the
proximate mechanisms of emotional contagion are evolutionarily conserved by assessing …

How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly
assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious …

A great challenge in neuroscience is understanding how activity in the brain gives rise to
behavior. The zebrafish is an ideal vertebrate model to address this challenge, thanks to the …