Perspective-taking refers to the ability to recognize another person's point of view. Crucial to
the development of interpersonal relationships and prosocial behavior, perspective-taking is …

While the discussion on the foundations of social understanding mainly revolves around the
notions of empathy, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing, their degree of overlap …

Social cognition refers to a set of processes, ranging from perception to decision‐making,
underlying the ability to decode others' intentions and behaviors to plan actions fitting with …

Social cognitive function, involved in the perception, processing, and interpretation of social
information, has been shown to be crucial for successful communication and interpersonal …

Loss of empathy is a core presenting feature of the behavioral-variant of frontotemporal
dementia (bvFTD), resulting in socioemotional difficulties and behavioral transgressions. In …

Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is the second leading cognitive
disorder caused by neurodegeneration in patients under 65 years of age. Characterized by …

Background Trajectories of decline across different socio-cognitive domains in healthy older
adults and in pathological aging conditions have not been investigated. This was addressed …

Impaired capacity for Theory of Mind (ToM) represents one of the hallmark features of the
behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and is suggested to underpin an …

Background Neurodegenerative diseases might affect social cognition in various ways
depending on their components (theory of mind, emotional processing, attribution bias, and …

Here we present the viewpoint that art essentially engages the social brain, by
demonstrating how art processing maps onto the social brain connectome—the most …