BackgroundDementia and mild cognitive impairment are characterised by symptoms of cognitive decline, which are typically assessed using neuropsychological assessments (NPAs), such as the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB). Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a novel clinical assessment technique that measures brain activities (summarised as oscillatory parameters), which are associated with symptoms of cognitive […]

In their recent article in TiCS [1], McMahon and Isik present evidence to argue that the core of third-party social interaction perception is visual in nature, selectively relying upon a specialized region in superior temporal sulcus (STS). This view is presented in contrast to the prevalent notion that third-party social interaction perception is part of […]

In a recent letter [1], Grossmann argues that, in young children and non-human primates, third-party social interaction recognition is supported by top-down processing in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). He suggests that top-down signals in the developing brain may be used to train neural systems in the superior temporal sulcus (STS), which, in adults, appears […]