The significance of social situations is commonly context-embedded. Although the role of
context has been extensively studied in basic sensory processing or simple stimulus …

Sleep suppresses the ability to react to environmental demands. It has been proposed that a
phenomenon of sensory isolation, whereby sensory inputs fail to reach cortical brain regions …

Dreams take us to a different reality, a hallucinatory world that feels as real as any waking
experience. These often-bizarre episodes are emblematic of human sleep but have yet to be …

Reactivating memories during sleep by re-exposure to associated memory cues (eg, odors
or sounds) improves memory consolidation. Here, we tested for the first time whether verbal …

Sleep is characterized by a loss of behavioral responsiveness. However, recent research
has shown that the sleeping brain is not completely disconnected from its environment. How …

Empathy is a highly flexible and adaptive process that allows for the interplay of prosocial
behavior in many different social contexts. Empathy appears to be a very situated cognitive …

Wakefulness, non-rapid eye-movement (NREM) and rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep differ
from each other along three dimensions: behavioral, phenomenological, physiological …

Language and action systems are functionally coupled in the brain as demonstrated by
converging evidence using Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) …

The ability to rapidly and systematically access knowledge stored in long‐term memory in
response to incoming sensory information—that is, to derive meaning from the world—lies at …

Converging neuroscientific evidence suggests the existence of close links between
language and sensorimotor cognition. Accordingly, during the comprehension of meaningful …