Rewards are crucial objects that induce learning, approach behavior, choices, and
emotions. Whereas emotions are difficult to investigate in animals, the learning function is …

How does the brain encode information about the environment? Decades of research have
led to the pervasive notion that the object-processing pathway in primate cortex consists of …

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers
viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the …

Since the rise of cognitive psychology in the early 1970s,“social cognition” has become the
dominant concept in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience to denote the processes …

A comprehensive overview of an interdisciplinary approach to robotics that takes direct
inspiration from the developmental and learning phenomena observed in children's …

Long before infants reach, crawl or walk, they explore the world by looking: they look to learn
and to engage, giving preferential attention to social stimuli, including faces, face-like stimuli …

Previous research on the success of politicians' messages on social media has so far
focused on a limited number of platforms, especially Facebook and Twitter, and …

Evidence of preattentive and attentional biases in anxiety is evaluated from a cognitive-
motivational perspective. According to this analysis, vulnerability to anxiety stems mainly …

Recognizing emotion from facial expressions draws on diverse psychological processes
implemented in a large array of neural structures. Studies using evoked potentials, lesions …

In the field of social neuroscience, major branches of research have been instrumental in
describing independent components of typical and aberrant social information processing …