Recent decades have ushered in tremendous progress in understanding the neural basis of
language. Most of our current knowledge on language and the brain, however, is derived …

Self-referential processing has been principally investigated using functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI). However, understanding of the brain functioning is not possible …

Background The WHO has raised concerns about the psychological consequences of the
current COVID-19 pandemic, negatively affecting health across societies, cultures and age …

The neural representation of self is a fundamental question for brain research. Employing
activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analyses, we assessed the commonalities and …

Accurately communicating self-relevant and emotional information is a vital function of
language, but we have little idea about how these factors impact normal discourse …

Self-protection and self-enhancement, once depicted as biases that impede accurate self-
knowledge and hinder effective environmental control, have more recently been viewed as …

The tendency for people to evaluate themselves more favorably than an average-peer—the
better-than-average effect (BTAE)—is among the most well-documented effects in the social …

Self-referential evaluation of emotional stimuli has been shown to modify the way emotional
stimuli are processed. This study aimed at a new approach by investigating whether self …

Individuals report remembering emotional items vividly. It is debated whether this report
reflects enhanced memory accuracy or a bias to believe emotional memories are vivid. We …

Background Decades of research have investigated the impact of clinical depression on
memory, which has revealed biases and in some cases impairments. However, little is …