Social development has been the focus of a great deal of neuroscience based research over
the past decade. In this review, we focus on providing a framework for understanding how …

Faces are among the most important visual stimuli we perceive, informing us not only about
a person's identity, but also about their mood, sex, age and direction of gaze. The ability to …

How does education affect cortical organization? All literate adults possess a region
specialized for letter strings, the visual word form area (VWFA), within the mosaic of ventral …

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 …

Componential theories of lexical semantics assume that concepts can be represented by
sets of features or attributes that are in some sense primitive or basic components of …

Is the human mind/brain composed of a set of highly specialized components, each carrying
out a specific aspect of human cognition, or is it more of a general-purpose device, in which …

First published in 1995, The Visual Brain in Action remains a seminal publication in the
cognitive sciences. It presents a model for understanding the visual processing underlying …

Over the last 10 years advances in the new field of neuromarketing have yielded a host of
findings which defy common stereotypes about consumer behavior. Reason and emotions …

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 …

Neuroscientists have debated for centuries whether some regions of the human brain are
selectively engaged in specific high-level mental functions or whether, instead, cognition is …