The significance of social situations is commonly context-embedded. Although the role of
context has been extensively studied in basic sensory processing or simple stimulus …

Dementia is becoming increasingly prevalent in Latin America, contrasting with stable or
declining rates in North America and Europe. This scenario places unprecedented clinical …

Abstract concepts are often embodied through metaphor. For example, we talk about moving
through time in metaphorical terms, as if we were moving through space, allowing us to'look …

Empathy is a highly flexible and adaptive process that allows for the interplay of prosocial
behavior in many different social contexts. Empathy appears to be a very situated cognitive …

Language and action systems are functionally coupled in the brain as demonstrated by
converging evidence using Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) …

Converging neuroscientific evidence suggests the existence of close links between
language and sensorimotor cognition. Accordingly, during the comprehension of meaningful …

Deficits in social cognition are an evident clinical feature of the Asperger syndrome (AS).
Although many daily life problems of adults with AS are related to social cognition …

Social cognitive neuroscience is a recent interdisciplinary field that studies the neural basis
of the social mind. Event-related potentials (ERPs) provide precise information about the …

In comparison with other regions, dementia prevalence in Latin America is growing rapidly,
along with the consequent clinical, social, and economic burden upon patients and their …

Current research on empathy for pain emphasizes the overlap in the neural response
between the first-hand experience of pain and its perception in others. However, recent …