[HTML][HTML] Mirror neurons 30 years later: implications and applications

L Bonini, C Rotunno, E Arcuri, V Gallese - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022 - cell.com
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 …

Toward a hierarchical model of social cognition: A neuroimaging meta-analysis and integrative review of empathy and theory of mind.

M Schurz, J Radua, MG Tholen, L Maliske… - Psychological …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Along with the increased interest in and volume of social cognition research, there has been
higher awareness of a lack of agreement on the concepts and taxonomy used to study social …

Using Bayes factor hypothesis testing in neuroscience to establish evidence of absence

C Keysers, V Gazzola, EJ Wagenmakers - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Most neuroscientists would agree that for brain research to progress, we have to know which
experimental manipulations have no effect as much as we must identify those that do have …

Anterior cingulate inputs to nucleus accumbens control the social transfer of pain and analgesia

ML Smith, N Asada, RC Malenka - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Empathy, the adoption of another's sensory and emotional state, plays a
critical role in social interactions. Although, historically, empathy was often considered to be …

The neural and computational systems of social learning

A Olsson, E Knapska, B Lindström - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Learning the value of stimuli and actions from others—social learning—adaptively
contributes to individual survival and plays a key role in cultural evolution. We review …

Neural basis of prosocial behavior

YE Wu, W Hong - Trends in Neurosciences, 2022 - cell.com
The ability to behave in ways that benefit other individuals' well-being is among the most
celebrated human characteristics crucial for social cohesiveness. Across mammalian …

Glutamatergic synapses from the insular cortex to the basolateral amygdala encode observational pain

MM Zhang, AQ Geng, K Chen, J Wang, P Wang, XT Qiu… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Empathic pain has attracted the interest of a substantial number of researchers studying the
social transfer of pain in the sociological, psychological, and neuroscience fields. However …

Semantic space theory: A computational approach to emotion

AS Cowen, D Keltner - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Within affective science, the central line of inquiry, animated by basic emotion theory and
constructivist accounts, has been the search for one-to-one mappings between six emotions …

The social life of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus)

MK Schweinfurth - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The Norway rat has important impacts on our life. They are amongst the most used research
subjects, resulting in ground-breaking advances. At the same time, wild rats live in close …

Mapping the passions: Toward a high-dimensional taxonomy of emotional experience and expression

A Cowen, D Sauter, JL Tracy… - … Science in the Public …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
What would a comprehensive atlas of human emotions include? For 50 years, scientists
have sought to map emotion-related experience, expression, physiology, and recognition in …