Two ongoing movements in human cognitive neuroscience have researchers shifting focus
from group-level inferences to characterizing single subjects, and complementing tightly …

For over a century, psychology has focused on uncovering mental processes of a single
individual. However, humans rarely navigate the world in isolation. The most important …

This article considers the status and study of “context” in psychological science through the
lens of research on emotional expressions. The article begins by updating three well-trod …

Naturalistic experimental paradigms in neuroimaging arose from a pressure to test the
validity of models we derive from highly-controlled experiments in real-world contexts. In …

The “Narratives” collection aggregates a variety of functional MRI datasets collected while
human subjects listened to naturalistic spoken stories. The current release includes 345 …

Adaptive brain function requires that sensory impressions of the social and natural milieu
are dynamically incorporated into intrinsic brain activity. While dynamic switches between …

Humans require a shared conceptualization of others' emotions for adaptive social
functioning. A concept is a mental blueprint that gives our brains parameters for predicting …

According to most memory theories, encoding involves continuous communication between
the hippocampus and neocortex, but recent work has shown that key moments at the end of …

Surprise signals a discrepancy between past and current beliefs. It is theorized to be linked
to affective experiences, the creation of particularly resilient memories, and segmentation of …

Naturalistic stimuli such as movies, music, and spoken and written stories elicit strong
emotions and allow brain imaging of emotions in close-to-real-life conditions. Emotions are …