How Your Brain Sizes Up Others in Real-Time

Summary: Whether you’re negotiating a contract or playing a friendly game of rock-paper-scissors, your brain is constantly “sizing up” the other person—a process scientists call adaptive mentalization. A new study…

Brain Region That Links Language to Social Cognition Identified

Summary: Researchers discovered that neural activity in the left ventral temporoparietal junction (vTPJ) and the lateral anterior temporal lobe (lATL) during sentence processing is tied to social-semantic working memory. Previously,…