Seeing social interactions

E McMahon, L Isik - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Seeing the interactions between other people is a critical part of our everyday visual
experience, but recognizing the social interactions of others is often considered outside the …

Specialized networks for social cognition in the primate brain

B Deen, CM Schwiedrzik, J Sliwa… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Primates have evolved diverse cognitive capabilities to navigate their complex social world.
To understand how the brain implements critical social cognitive abilities, we describe …

Hierarchical organization of social action features along the lateral visual pathway

E McMahon, MF Bonner, L Isik - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Recent theoretical work has argued that in addition to the classical ventral (what) and dorsal
(where/how) visual streams, there is a third visual stream on the lateral surface of the brain …

Category-Selective Representation of Relationships in the Visual Cortex

E Abassi, L Papeo - Journal of Neuroscience, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Understanding social interaction requires processing social agents and their relationships.
The latest results show that much of this process is visually solved: visual areas can …

Seeing social: A neural signature for conscious perception of social interactions

RS Varrier, ES Finn - Journal of Neuroscience, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Social information is some of the most ambiguous content we encounter in our daily lives,
yet in experimental contexts, percepts of social interactions—that is, whether an interaction …

Converging evidence that left extrastriate body area supports visual sensitivity to social interactions

M Gandolfo, E Abassi, E Balgova, PE Downing… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Navigating our complex social world requires processing the interactions we observe.
Recent psychophysical and neuroimaging studies provide parallel evidence that the human …

Intermodulation responses show integration of interacting bodies in a new whole

N Goupil, JR Hochmann, L Papeo - Cortex, 2023 - Elsevier
People are often seen among other people, relating to and interacting with one another.
Recent studies suggest that socially relevant spatial relations between bodies, such as the …

What is abstract about seeing social interactions?

L Papeo - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
TICS 2538 No. of Pages 2 isolate truly abstract representations of social interactions in the
brain, those that might or might not correlate with the visual properties of the stimuli, but are …

[HTML][HTML] Overlapping neural correlates underpin theory of mind and semantic cognition: evidence from a meta-analysis of 344 functional neuroimaging studies

E Balgova, V Diveica, RL Jackson, RJ Binney - Neuropsychologia, 2024 - Elsevier
Key unanswered questions for cognitive neuroscience include whether social cognition is
underpinned by specialised brain regions and to what extent it simultaneously depends on …

Multimodal processing in face-to-face interactions: A bridging link between psycholinguistics and sensory neuroscience

S Benetti, A Ferrari, F Pavani - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In face-to-face communication, humans are faced with multiple layers of discontinuous
multimodal signals, such as head, face, hand gestures, speech and non-speech sounds …