The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been implicated in seemingly disparate cognitive
functions, such as understanding the minds of other people and processing information about …

Humans devote 30–40% of speech output solely to informing others of their own subjective
experiences. What drives this propensity for disclosure? Here, we test recent theories that …

Human social cognition relies on an ability to predict what others will think, feel or do in
novel situations. Research in social neuroscience has consistently observed several brain …

The large-scale sharing of task-based functional neuroimaging data has the potential to
allow novel insights into the organization of mental function in the brain, but the field of …

Human social interaction requires the recognition that other people are governed by the
same types of mental states—beliefs, desires, intentions—that guide one's own behavior. We …

A central function of memory is to permit an organism to distinguish between stimuli that have
been previously encountered and those that are novel. Although the medial temporal lobe (…

Recent researchers have suggested that a region of right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ)
selectively subserves the attribution of beliefs to other people (Saxe R, Kanwisher N. 2003. …

In the present research, the authors examined contextual variations in automatic attitudes.
Using 2 measures of automatic attitudes, the authors demonstrated that evaluative responses …

Studies using functional neuroimaging and patient populations have demonstrated that distinct
brain regions subserve semantic knowledge for different classes of inanimate objects (eg…

Prosocial behavior is a central feature of human life and a major focus of research across
the natural and social sciences. Most theoretical models of prosociality share a common …