Our bodies are fundamental to how we experience and interact with the physical world, and they shape the way our minds develop. The human brain develops toge...

Without visual clues, our ears mishear sounds produced in front of us. Knowing more about why this happens will give new insights into how the brain works.

Engaging in fluent conversation is a surprisingly complex task that requires interlocutors to promptly respond to each other in a way that is appropriate to the social context. In this study, we dise...

Subjective experience is key to understanding affective states, characterized by valence and arousal. Traditional experiments using post-stimulus summary rat...

Technological advances are making the use of virtual reality (VR) easier and more affordable for many research institutions. Such applications allow f…

Communicating emotional intentions via emojis influences how people evaluate and mimic facial expressions during social interactions. Sending a smile emoji increased pleasantness and mimicry of happy...

According to the Stimulus Organism Response theory, for a given external stimulus, individuals may react differently according to their internal state and external contextual factors in a specific per...

Investigating auditory perception and cognition in realistic, controlled environments is made possible by virtual reality (VR). However, when visual information is presented, sound localization result...

When studying spontaneous or learned emotional responses to social stimuli, research has traditionally relied on simplified stimuli repeatedly presented on a computer screen in standardized laboratory...

Abstract. Facial emotional expressions are crucial in face-to-face social interactions, and recent findings have highlighted their interactive nature. Howe

In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Lin et al. show that trait impressions of faces are correlated with and causally influence mental state inferences from the same faces.

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