Delusional beliefs are seen in association with a number of neuropathological conditions,
including schizophrenia, dementia, and traumatic brain injury. A key distinction exists …

Over the past two decades, evidence has accumulated that the human amygdala exerts
some of its functions also when the observer is not aware of the content, or even presence …

The distributed model of face processing proposes an anatomical dissociation between
brain regions that encode invariant aspects of faces, such as identity, and those that encode …

Semantic dementia is a focal clinical syndrome, resulting from degeneration of the temporal
lobes and characterized by progressive loss of conceptual knowledge about the world …

Who we are as humans has a lot to do with what happens between our ears. What happens
between our ears has a lot to do with the social world we traverse, engage, and react to. The …

The idea that the brain learns generative models of the world has been widely promulgated.
Most approaches have assumed that the brain learns an explicit density model that assigns …

Face and voice processing contribute to person recognition, but it remains unclear how the
segregated specialized cortical modules interact. Using functional neuroimaging, we …

Confabulations are memories of events and experiences that have never actually
happened. Such false memories have fascinated scientists for over a century, and in recent …

Delusional beliefs have sometimes been considered as rational inferences from abnormal
experiences. We explore this idea in more detail, making the following points. First, the …

When the delusional misidentification syndromes reduplicative paramnesia and Capgras
syndromes result from neurologic disease, lesions are usually bifrontal and/or right …