Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a major impact on the development and social
integration of affected individuals and is the most heritable of psychiatric disorders. An …

Aesthetic evaluations are appraisals that influence choices in important domains of human
activity, including mate selection, consumer behavior, art appreciation, and possibly even …

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

On average, we urban dwellers spend about 90% of our time indoors, and share the intuition
that the physical features of the places we live and work in influence how we feel and act …

In the last fifteen years, functional neuroimaging techniques have been used to investigate
the neuroanatomical correlates of sexual arousal in healthy human subjects. In most studies …

Neuroaesthetics is gaining momentum. At this early juncture, it is worth taking stock of where
the field is and what lies ahead. Here, I review writings that fall under the rubric of …

Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to physical, neuropsychological, and emotional
deficits that interfere with the individual's capacity to return to his or her former lifestyle. This …

Face perception elicits activation within a distributed cortical network in the human brain.
The network includes visual (“core”) regions, as well as limbic and prefrontal (“extended”) …

What are the basic visual cues that determine our preference towards mundane everyday
objects? We previously showed that a highly potent cue is the nature of the object's contour …

Face perception elicits activation within a distributed cortical network in the human brain.
The network includes visual (“core”) regions, which process invariant facial features, as well …