The neural bases of affective experience remain elusive. Early neuroscience models of
affect searched for specific brain regions that uniquely carried out the computations that …

Social neuroscience is unveiling how the brain coordinates the construal of social
categories and the generation of intergroup biases from facial perception. Recent evidence …

A range of studies published in the last few decades promotes the cognitive aspects of life:
all organisms, from bacteria to mammals, are capable of sensing/perception, decision …

The study of such complex issues as mind functioning and mental health requires a
multilevel approach. The general system theory elaborated by Ludwig von Bertalanffy in the …

The complex songs produced by humpback whales have been cited as evidence of
prodigious memory, innovativeness, sophisticated auditory scene analysis, vocal imitation …

The subject of this book, as the title indicates, is about bilinguals or rather, defined more
precisely, about people who use, with varying degrees of ability, more than one language …

We consider deception an example of behavior that challenges traditional explanations of
moral behavior. Beguiling mechanisms, by which we mean deceptiveness with charming …

The rich body of physical theories defines the foundation of our understanding of the world.
Its mathematical formulation is based on classical Aristotelian (binary) logic. In the …

We provide a formal account of an interface that bridges two different levels of dynamic
processes manifested by mimicry: prey–prey interactions and predators' perception. Mimicry …

Peirce is the father of semiotics. However, his theory was developed long before the
developments in information theory. The codification procedures studied by the latter turn …