Interest in sex-related differences in psychological functioning has again come to the
foreground with new findings about their possible functional basis in the brain. Sex …

Background: Most of our social interactions involve perception of emotional information from
the faces of other people. Furthermore, such emotional processes are thought to be aberrant …

A widely used technique for coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging data is
activation likelihood estimation (ALE), which determines the convergence of foci reported …

The present study aimed to quantify the magnitude of sex differences in humans' ability to
accurately recognise non-verbal emotional displays. Studies of relevance were those that …

Recent evidence suggests that there are two possible systems for empathy: a basic
emotional contagion system and a more advanced cognitive perspective-taking system …

The temporal–parietal junction (TPJ) has been proposed to support either specifically social
functions or non-specific processes of cognition such as memory and attention. To account …

Empathy is a lay term that is becoming increasingly viewed as a unitary function within the
field of cognitive neuroscience. In this paper, a selective review of the empathy literature is …

Recognizing emotion from facial expressions draws on diverse psychological processes
implemented in a large array of neural structures. Studies using evoked potentials, lesions …

What is the basic structure of emotional experience and how is it represented in the human
brain? One highly influential theory, discrete basic emotions, proposes a limited set of basic …

Acute pain and emotion are processed in two forebrain networks, and the cingulate cortex is
involved in both. Although Brodmann's cingulate gyrus had two divisions and was not based …