The need for assessment of social skills in clinical and neurotypical populations has led to
the widespread, and still increasing use of the 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test'(RMET) …

Survival prompts organisms to prepare adaptive behavior in response to environmental and
social threat. However, what are the specific features of the appearance of a conspecific that …

Covering faces with masks, due to mandatory pandemic safety regulations, we can no
longer rely on the habitual daily-life information. This may be thought-provoking for healthy …

Affective experience colours everyday perception and cognition, yet its fundamental and
neurobiological basis is poorly understood. The current debate essentially centers around …

Core regions of the salience network (SN), including the anterior insula (aINS) and dorsal
anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), coordinate rapid adaptive changes in attentional and …

Emotional arousal is a complex state recruiting distributed cortical and subcortical structures,
in which the amygdala and insula play an important role. Although previous neuroimaging …

Research on face sensitivity is of particular relevance during the rapidly evolving Covid-19
pandemic leading to social isolation, but also calling for intact interaction and sharing …

Face pareidolia is a tendency to seeing faces in nonface images that reflects high tuning to a
face scheme. Yet, studies of the brain networks underwriting face pareidolia are scarce …

Faces hold a substantial value for effective social interactions and sharing. Covering faces
with masks, due to COVID-19 regulations, may lead to difficulties in using social signals, in …

The intrinsic connectivity of the salience network (SN) plays an important role in social
behavior, however the directional influence that individual nodes have on each other has …