Schizophrenia and autism spectra disorders are currently conceptualized as distinct clinical
categories. However, the relationship between these two nosological entities has been …

Background Mirror neuron system (MNS) consists of visuomotor neurons that are
responsible for the mirror neuron activity (MNA), meaning that each time an individual …

Humans have evolved the sophisticated ability to extract social relations embedded in
interactive entities. One typical demonstration is a social chunking phenomenon wherein the …

Introduction Mentalizing is a key aspect of social cognition. Several researchers assume that
mentalization has two systems, an explicit one (conscious, relatively slow, flexible, verbal …

Rapidly recognizing and understanding others' social interactions is an important ability that
relies on deciphering multiple sources of information, for example, perceiving body …

Social neuroscience offers a wide range of techniques that may be applied to study the
social cognitive deficits that may underlie reduced social functioning—a common feature …

Brain processes associated with emotion perception from biological motion have been
largely investigated using point-light displays that are devoid of pictorial information and not …

Background Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are characterized by social cognitive
impairments, and recent research has identified alterations of the social brain. However, it is …

Social predictive coding is now a well-established phenomenon in healthy individuals. It has
been demonstrated that the communicative gestures of one agent may be effectively used to …

The ability to maintain events (ie, interactions between/among objects) in working memory is
crucial for our everyday cognition, yet the format of this representation is poorly understood …