Humans can see and name thousands of distinct object and action categories, so it is
unlikely that each category is represented in a distinct brain area. A more efficient scheme …

Classic theories of emotion posit that awareness of one's internal bodily states
(interoception) is a key component of emotional experience. This view has been indirectly …

Over the last decade, research methods aimed to explain and anticipate how effective
marketing campaigns are. However, most of the conventional techniques have failed. Since …

Visual imagery allows us to vividly imagine scenes in the absence of visual stimulation. The
likeness of visual imagery to visual perception suggests that they might share neural …

The perception of object-directed actions performed by either hands or tools recruits regions
in left fronto-parietal cortex. Here, using functional MRI (fMRI), we tested whether the …

The rapid visual detection of other people in our environment is an important first step in
social cognition. Here we provide evidence for selective sensitivity of the human visual …

Negative emotional signals are known to influence task performance, but so far,
investigations have focused on how emotion interacts with perceptual processes by …

Ventral visual cortex contains specialized regions for particular object categories, but little is
known about how these regions interact during object recognition. Here we examine how …

Neural regions selective for facial or bodily form also respond to facial or bodily motion in
highly form-degraded point-light displays. Yet it is unknown whether these face-selective …

Functional imaging studies in humans and monkeys have shown category-selective regions
in the temporal cortex, in particular for faces and bodies. Although the body-selective …