ReviewNeuroscience letters2019
The neuroscience of understanding the emotions of others.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Human Pregenual Anterior Cingulate Cortex: Structural, Functional, and Connectional Heterogeneity.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2019Pooled it
- Ultradian rhythmicity of plasma cortisol is necessary for normal emotional and cognitive responses in man.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Trial
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- Emotion recognition in patients with mild cognitive impairment: The role of face processing and emotional intelligence.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2026Article
- Sensory encoding of emotion conveyed by the face and visual context.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- A reverse hierarchy theory of social perception.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Neural and physiological correlates of parent-child observational threat extinction.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Affective abstraction predicts variation in alexithymia, depression, and autism spectrum quotient.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- Introducing e-Motions: a novel intraoperative test for social cognition mapping. Triple validation in normative, schizophrenia, and autism spectrum disorder populations.Acta neurochirurgica · 2025Article
- Neural signatures of emotional intent and inference align during social consensus.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Unveiling the Role of Theory of Mind: Neural Response to Emotional Stimuli in Context.Affective science · 2025Article
- Brain-wide connectivity changes due to social-emotional regulation during a naturalistic fMRI task.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Mental State Recognition Deficits Linked to Brain Changes in Parkinson's Disease Without Dementia.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- Usability, sense of presence, and performance of a virtual reality emotion recognition task.PloS one · 2025Article
- Domain-specific representation of social inference by neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus.Science advances · 2024Article
- A Model for Emotional Intelligence in Biology Education Research.CBE life sciences education · 2024Article
- Insula uses overlapping codes for emotion in self and others.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Parasympathetic Nervous System Functioning Moderates the Associations between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Emotion Understanding Difficulties in Late Childhood.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
We cannot help but impute emotions to the behaviors of others, and constantly infer not only what others are feeling, but also why they feel that way. The comprehension of other people's emotional states is computationally complex and difficult, requiring the flexible, context-sensitive deployment of cognitive operations that encompass rapid orienting to, and recognition of, emotionally salient cues; classification of emotions into culturally-learned categories; and using an abstract theory of mind to reason about what caused the emotion, what future actions the person might be planning, and what we should do next in response. This review summarizes what neuroscience data - primarily functional neuroimaging data - has so far taught us about the cognitive architecture enabling emotion understanding in its various forms.
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