The flow state is defined by intense involvement in an activity with high degrees of
concentration and focused attention accompanied by a sense of pleasure. Video games are …

Humans make various kinds of decisions about which emotions they perceive from others.
Although it might seem like a split‐second phenomenon, deliberating over which emotions …

Environmental conditions bias our perception of other peoples' facial emotions. This
becomes quite relevant in potentially threatening situations, when a fellow's facial …

Accurate facial expression recognition is challenging because identity biases introduce
large intraclass variations and high interclass similarities. Most existing facial expression …

Adaptive social behavior and mental well-being depend on not only recognizing emotional
expressions but also, inferring the absence of emotion. While the neurobiology underwriting …

Humans process faces by using a network of face-selective regions distributed across the
brain. Neuropsychological patient studies demonstrate that focal damage to nodes in this …

The ability to pick out a unique entity with a proper name is an important component of
human language. It has been a primary focus of research in the philosophy of language …

Chronic inflammation in women diagnosed with breast cancer is critically linked with tumor
progression, metastasis and survival. C-reactive protein (CRP)—a circulating marker of …

The human amygdala is considered a key region for successful emotion recognition. We
recently reported that temporal lobe surgery (TLS), including resection of the amygdala …

Objective Odor presentation is a crucial tool in the experimental investigation of dreaming
since odors rarely cause arousal, and are processed in the brain during sleep. Our previous …