Spontaneous mimicry appears fundamental to emotional perception and contagion,
especially when it involves facial emotional expressions. Here we cover recent evidence on …

The ability to adaptively follow conspecific eye movements is crucial for establishing shared
attention and survival. Indeed, in humans, interacting with the gaze direction of others …

The existence of so-called 'basic emotions' and their defining attributes represents a long
lasting and yet unsettled issue in psychology. Recently, neuroimaging evidence, especially …

Highlights•Interactions between emotion and cognition rely on large-scale distributed
networks.•Brain networks are composed of overlapping regions (not disjoint sets of …

Highlights•Emotion perception research relies heavily on stereotypical decontextualized
posed faces.•Real-life facial expressions are highly ambiguous and thus rely on contextual …

Emotional communication between parents and children is crucial during early life, yet little
is known about its neural underpinnings. Here, we adopt a dual connectivity approach to …

Discrimination of facial expressions is an elementary function of the human brain. While the
way emotions are represented in the brain has long been debated, common and specific …

Pain and anxiety are two of the most important concerns in clinical veterinary medicine
because they arise as consequences of multiple factors that can severely affect animal …

The dot‐probe task is a common task to assess attentional bias toward different stimuli and
how groups differ (eg, attentional bias in anxiety disorders). However, measuring reaction …

The human brain can process facial expressions of emotions rapidly and without
awareness. Several studies in patients with damage to their primary visual cortices have …