The rapid and efficient selection of emotionally salient or goal-relevant stimuli in the
environment is crucial for flexible and adaptive behaviors. Converging data from …

The traditional belief is that the event-related alpha response can solely be described in
terms of suppression or event-related desynchronization (ERD). Recent research, however …

A comprehensive picture of object processing in the human brain requires combining both
spatial and temporal information about brain activity. Here we acquired human …

Some dictionaries still define cognition as the power or faculty of apprehending and
knowing, a usage that harks back to the days when philosophers attributed all mental …

A subcortical pathway through the superior colliculus and pulvinar to the amygdala is
commonly assumed to mediate the non-conscious processing of affective visual stimuli. We …

Emotion is central to the quality and range of everyday human experience. The
neurobiological substrates of human emotion are now attracting increasing interest within …

Recognition of emotion draws on a distributed set of structures that include the
occipitotemporal neocortex, amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex and right frontoparietal cortices …

We are an intensely social species—it has been argued that our social nature defines what
makes us human, what makes us conscious or what gave us our large brains. As a new …

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 …

Faces are among the most important visual stimuli we perceive, informing us not only about
a person's identity, but also about their mood, sex, age and direction of gaze. The ability to …