Social behavior is pervasive across the animal kingdom, and elucidating how the brain
enables animals to respond to social contexts is of great interest and profound importance …

Face pareidolia is the phenomenon of seeing facelike structures in everyday objects. Here,
we tested the hypothesis that face pareidolia, rather than being limited to a cognitive or …

The instructor's on-screen presence, rather than just voice, has rapidly become a popular
feature in video lectures. Eye gaze and body orientation are core indicators of an instructor's …

Evolutionary adaptations of temporo-parietal cortex are considered to be a critical
specialization of the human brain. Cortical adaptations, however, can affect different aspects …

As the field of social robotics has been dynamically growing and expanding over various
areas of research and application, in which robots can be of assistance and companionship …

A salient characteristic of monkey inferior temporal (IT) cortex is the IT face processing
network. Its hallmarks include:“face neurons” that respond more to faces than non-face …

Facial information is a powerful channel for human-to-human communication.
Characteristically, faces can be defined as biological objects that are four-dimensional (4D) …

Awareness of internal bodily sensations (interoceptive awareness; IA) and its connection to
complex socioemotional abilities like empathy has been postulated, yet the functional neural …

Efficiently judging where someone else is looking is important for social interactions,
allowing us a window into their mental state by establishing joint attention. Previous work …

Faces attract the observer's attention toward objects and locations of interest for the other,
thereby allowing the two agents to establish joint attention. Previous work has delineated a …