Social cognition is a topic of enormous interest and much research, but we are far from
having an agreed taxonomy or factor structure of relevant processes. The aim of this review …

In the field of social neuroscience, major branches of research have been instrumental in
describing independent components of typical and aberrant social information processing …

Ten years ago, Perspectives in Psychological Science published the Mirror Neuron Forum,
in which authors debated the role of mirror neurons in action understanding, speech …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

It is widely accepted that autism is associated with disordered emotion processing and, in
particular, with deficits of emotional reciprocity such as impaired emotion recognition and …

How well can neurotypical adults' interpret mental states in people with ASD?'Targets'(ASD
and neurotypical) reactions to four events were video-recorded then shown to neurotypical …

Automatic imitation is the finding that movement execution is facilitated by compatible and
impeded by incompatible observed movements. In the past 15 years, automatic imitation has …

To a large extent, the human infant is socialized through the acquisition of a specific
cognitive mechanism known as theory of mind (ToM), a term which is currently used to …

This meta‐analysis summarized studies that examined group differences on the production
of facial expressions in participants with ASD compared to typically developing or …

There is widespread belief that individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) are
“emotionally detached” from others. This comprehensive review examines the empirical …