Mirror neurons (MNs) were first described in a seminal paper in 1992 as a class of monkey
premotor cells discharging during both action execution and observation. Despite their …

Survival prompts organisms to prepare adaptive behavior in response to environmental and
social threat. However, what are the specific features of the appearance of a conspecific that …

Altruism, defined as costly other-regarding behavior, varies considerably across people and
contexts. One prominent context in which people frequently must decide on how to socially …

Socioeconomic status (SES), a concept related to an individual's economic and social
position relative to others, can shape social interactions like altruistic behaviors. However …

Primates, as social beings, have evolved complex brain mechanisms to navigate intricate
social environments. This review explores the neural bases of body perception in both …

Blindsight refers to the ability to make accurate visual discriminations without conscious
awareness of the stimuli. In this study, we present new evidence from naturalistic …

Emotion perception interacts with how we think and speak, including our concept of
emotions. Body expression is an important way of emotion communication, but it is unknown …

Body posture and configuration provide important visual cues about the emotion states of
other people. We know that bodily form is processed holistically, however, emotion …

Fear responses to novel stimuli can be learned directly, through personal experiences (Fear
Conditioning, FC), or indirectly, by observing conspecific reactions to a stimulus (Social Fear …

This ultrahigh field 7 T fMRI study addressed the question of whether there exists a core
network of brain areas at the service of different aspects of body perception. Participants …