During social interactions, people's eyes convey a wealth of information about their direction
of attention and their emotional and mental states. This review aims to provide a …

The notion that there is a 'social brain'in humans specialized for social interactions has
received considerable support from brain imaging and, to a lesser extent, from lesion …

Primates are remarkably good at recognizing objects. The level of performance of their
visual system and its robustness to image degradations still surpasses the best computer …

Visual face identification requires distinguishing between thousands of faces we know. This
computational feat involves a network of brain regions including the fusiform face area (FFA) …

Studies on human monetary prediction and decision making emphasize the role of the
striatum in encoding prediction errors for financial reward. However, less is known about …

Impaired social cognition is a core feature of autism. There is much evidence showing
people with autism use a different cognitive style than controls for face-processing. We …

Human and non-human primates excel at visual recognition tasks. The primate visual
system exhibits a strong degree of selectivity while at the same time being robust to changes …

Electrophysiological recording in the anterior superior temporal sulcus (STS) of monkeys
has demonstrated separate cell populations responsive to direct and averted gaze [1, 2] …

Social neuroscience is a new, interdisciplinary field devoted to understanding how
biological systems implement social processes and behavior. Social neuroscience …

We investigated the representation of visual inputs by multiple simultaneously recorded
single neurons in the human medial temporal lobe, using their firing rates to infer which …