Why bodies? It is rather puzzling that given the massive interest in affective neuroscience in
the last decade, it still seems to make sense to raise the question 'Why bodies' and to try to …

The human body, like the human face, is a rich source of socially relevant information about
other individuals. Evidence from studies of both humans and non-human primates points to …

The greater expansion of the frontal lobes along the phylogeny scale has been interpreted
as the signature of evolutionary changes underlying higher cognitive abilities in humans …

The amygdala's historical role in processing stimuli related to threat and fear is being
modified to suggest a role that is broader and more abstract. Amygdala lesions impair the …

Visual processing of biological motion (BM) produced by living organisms is of immense
value for successful daily-life activities and, in particular, for adaptive social behavior and …

During communication, we perceive and express emotional information through many
different channels, including facial expressions, prosody, body motion, and posture …

The most familiar emotional signals consist of faces, voices, and whole-body expressions,
but so far research on emotions expressed by the whole body is sparse. The authors …

Human observers readily recognize emotions expressed in body movement. Their
perceptual judgments are based on simple movement features, such as overall speed, but …

As a highly social species, humans are equipped with a powerful tool for social
communication—the face. Although seemingly simple, the human face can elicit multiple …

Recent studies of monkeys and humans have identified several brain regions that respond
to bodies. Researchers have so far mainly addressed the same questions about bodies and …