Two ongoing movements in human cognitive neuroscience have researchers shifting focus
from group-level inferences to characterizing single subjects, and complementing tightly …

Using movies and narratives as naturalistic stimuli in human neuroimaging studies has
yielded significant advances in understanding of cognitive and emotional functions. The …

Intrinsic connectivity, measured using resting-state fMRI, has emerged as a fundamental tool
in the study of the human brain. However, due to practical limitations, many studies do not …

People are embedded in social interaction that shapes their brains throughout lifetime.
Instead of emerging from lower-level cognitive functions, social interaction could be the …

Facial expressions of emotion involve a physical component of morphological changes in a
face and an affective component conveying information about the expresser's internal …

Highlights•We review the cognitive processes supporting mind attribution to animals.•Mind
attributions result from a set of automatic and reflective processes.•Autonomously moving …

The ability to adaptively follow conspecific eye movements is crucial for establishing shared
attention and survival. Indeed, in humans, interacting with the gaze direction of others …

Evidence suggests that an athlete's sports-related perceptual-cognitive expertise is a crucial
element of top-level competitive sports. When directly assessing whether such experience …

Naturalistic stimuli such as movies, music, and spoken and written stories elicit strong
emotions and allow brain imaging of emotions in close-to-real-life conditions. Emotions are …

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are far more prevalent in males than in females. Little is
known however about the differential neural expression of ASD in males and females. We …