ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2023
Seeing social interactions.
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- Naturalistic stimuli in neuroimaging studies of autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
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- Towards naturalistic social neuroscience: A multi-level framework integrating real-world phenotyping, neurobiology, and computational mechanisms.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
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- Monosynaptic connections link functionally similar regions in human cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Transdiagnostic associations between subjective gesture behaviour and objective performance in schizophrenia and depression.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Common and distinct neural correlates of social interaction processing and theory of mind in narratives.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Selective observation following betrayal shapes the social inference landscape.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Distinct perceptual and conceptual representations of natural actions along the lateral and dorsal visual streams.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Bottom-up and generative computations uniquely explain neural responses across the social brain.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- A reverse hierarchy theory of social perception.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Trait psychoticism is associated with greater intersubject neural dissimilarity during naturalistic social movie viewing.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The Processing Stages for Social Interaction Recognition.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026Article
- Shared and Individual Tuning Curves for Social Perception.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026Article
- Functional organization of the human visual system at birth and across late gestation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content from human brain activity.Science advances · 2025Article
- Social Decision Preferences for Close Others Are Embedded in Neural and Linguistic Representations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Functional Connectivity in the Social Perception Pathway at Birth Is Linked to Attention to Faces at Four Months.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
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Abstract
Seeing the interactions between other people is a critical part of our everyday visual experience, but recognizing the social interactions of others is often considered outside the scope of vision and grouped with higher-level social cognition like theory of mind. Recent work, however, has revealed that recognition of social interactions is efficient and automatic, is well modeled by bottom-up computational algorithms, and occurs in visually-selective regions of the brain. We review recent evidence from these three methodologies (behavioral, computational, and neural) that converge to suggest the core of social interaction perception is visual. We propose a computational framework for how this process is carried out in the brain and offer directions for future interdisciplinary investigations of social perception.
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