Rationale Illicit use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) has grown into a serious public
health concern throughout the Western World. AAS use is associated with adverse medical …

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

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with biased perception of human movement.
Gesture is important for communication and in this study we investigated neural correlates of …

Individual differences are shaped by a myriad of interrelated factors depending on how the
nervous system develops, adapts, reacts to, and interacts with the world outer settings. Sex …

Nonverbal expressions contribute substantially to social interaction by providing information
on another person's intentions and feelings. While emotion recognition from dynamic facial …

We proved the viability of the general hypothesis that biological motion (BM) processing
serves as a hallmark of social cognition. We assumed that BM processing and inferring …

Social directional cues (eg, gaze direction; walking direction) can trigger reflexive attentional
orienting, a phenomenon known as social attention. Here, we examined whether this …

Face tuning to non-face images such as shadows or grilled toasts is termed face pareidolia.
Face-pareidolia images represent a valuable tool for investigation of social cognition in …

Mentalizing is the key socio-cognitive ability. Its heterogeneous structure may result from a
variety of forms of mental state inference, which may be based on lower-level processing of …

Human body movements can convey a variety of emotions and even create advantages in
some special life situations. However, how emotion is encoded in body movements has …