VR applications in psychotherapy are gaining prominence in the research community and acceptance among practitioners, with particular successes in the area of phobia treatments. However, a promising technology remains unexplored: computational models of cognition and emotion. Cognitive models (also termed cognitiveor agent-architectures) aim to emulate cognitive processing such as attention, pe...

In people with psychiatric disorders, particularly those suffering from schizophrenia and related illnesses, pronounced difficulties in social interactions are a key manifestation. These difficulties can be partly explained by impairments in social cognition, defined as the ability to understand oneself and others in the social world, which includes abilities such as emotion recognition, theory...

I describe an integrative social-evolutionary model for the adaptive significance of the human oxytocinergic system. The model is based on a role for this hormone in the generation and maintenance of social familiarity and affiliation across five homologous, functionally similar, and sequentially co-opted contexts: mothers with offspring, female and male mates, kin groups, individuals with reci...

Memory disorders due to medial temporal lobe lesions are well documented, but studies on social cognition in patients with amnesia rare. This study examined cognitive functioning three adult amnesic patients. We report the neurocognitive and profiles of two developmental a patient adult-onset amnesia, all hypoxic events. All cases were compared their individual IQ-matched control groups. Both s...

Considerable effort has been directed at understanding the nature of the communicative deficits observed in individuals with acquired brain injuries. Yet several theoretical, methodological, and clinical challenges remain. In this article, we examine distributed cognition as a framework for understanding interaction among communication partners, interaction of communication and cognition, and i...