[HTML][HTML] Prefrontal cortex and social cognition in mouse and man

LK Bicks, H Koike, S Akbarian, H Morishita - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Social cognition is a complex process that requires the integration of a wide variety of
behaviors, including salience, reward-seeking, motivation, knowledge of self and others …

The structure of social cognition: In (ter) dependence of sociocognitive processes

F Happé, JL Cook, G Bird - Annual review of psychology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Social cognition is a topic of enormous interest and much research, but we are far from
having an agreed taxonomy or factor structure of relevant processes. The aim of this review …

Attention to eyes is present but in decline in 2–6-month-old infants later diagnosed with autism

W Jones, A Klin - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Deficits in eye contact have been a hallmark of autism, since the condition's initial
description. They are cited widely as a diagnostic feature and figure prominently in clinical …

The social motivation theory of autism

C Chevallier, G Kohls, V Troiani, ES Brodkin… - Trends in cognitive …, 2012 - cell.com
The idea that social motivation deficits play a central role in Autism Spectrum Disorders
(ASD) has recently gained increased interest. This constitutes a shift in autism research …

[HTML][HTML] Face detection in untrained deep neural networks

S Baek, M Song, J Jang, G Kim, SB Paik - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Face-selective neurons are observed in the primate visual pathway and are considered as
the basis of face detection in the brain. However, it has been debated as to whether this …

Cortical route for facelike pattern processing in human newborns

M Buiatti, E Di Giorgio, M Piazza… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Humans are endowed with an exceptional ability for detecting faces, a competence that, in
adults, is supported by a set of face-specific cortical patches. Human newborns, already …

[HTML][HTML] The hierarchically mechanistic mind: an evolutionary systems theory of the human brain, cognition, and behavior

PB Badcock, KJ Friston, MJD Ramstead… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2019 - Springer
The purpose of this review was to integrate leading paradigms in psychology and
neuroscience with a theory of the embodied, situated human brain, called the Hierarchically …

Social visual engagement in infants and toddlers with autism: early developmental transitions and a model of pathogenesis

A Klin, S Shultz, W Jones - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Efforts to determine and understand the causes of autism are currently hampered by a large
disconnect between recent molecular genetics findings that are associated with the …

[HTML][HTML] Face perception and processing in early infancy: inborn predispositions and developmental changes

F Simion, ED Giorgio - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
From birth it is critical for our survival to identify social agents and conspecifics. Among
others stimuli, faces provide the required information. The present paper will review the …

Friendship in school-age boys with autism spectrum disorders: A meta-analytic summary and developmental, process-based model.

JL Mendelson, JA Gates, MD Lerner - Psychological Bulletin, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Friendship-making is considered a well-established domain of deficit for children with autism
spectrum disorders (ASD; American Psychiatric Association, 2013), with this population …