Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Papers
(The TQCC of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The basal ganglia and the cerebellum in human emotion96
Interactional synchrony: signals, mechanisms and benefits86
Using reinforcement learning models in social neuroscience: frameworks, pitfalls and suggestions of best practices71
The posterior crus II cerebellum is specialized for social mentalizing and emotional self-experiences: a meta-analysis67
Inter-brain synchrony in teams predicts collective performance65
Tools of the Trade Multivoxel pattern analysis in fMRI: a practical introduction for social and affective neuroscientists61
Shared and distinct functional networks for empathy and pain processing: a systematic review and meta-analysis of fMRI studies57
Neural synchrony in mother–child conversation: Exploring the role of conversation patterns56
Neurostructural correlates of hope: dispositional hope mediates the impact of the SMA gray matter volume on subjective well-being in late adolescence54
Tools of the trade: estimating time-varying connectivity patterns from fMRI data52
Brain and motor synchrony in children and adolescents with ASD—a fNIRS hyperscanning study49
Attentional conditions differentially affect early, intermediate and late neural responses to fearful and neutral faces43
Touch and social support influence interpersonal synchrony and pain43
Robust prediction of individual personality from brain functional connectome43
HyPyP: a Hyperscanning Python Pipeline for inter-brain connectivity analysis42
Beyond synchrony: the capacity of fMRI hyperscanning for the study of human social interaction41
Inflammation, reward circuitry and symptoms of anhedonia and PTSD in trauma-exposed women41
Dual brain stimulation enhances interpersonal learning through spontaneous movement synchrony41
Computational modelling of social cognition and behaviour—a reinforcement learning primer39
Social value orientation modulates fairness processing during social decision-making: evidence from behavior and brain potentials33
Interpersonal similarity of autistic traits predicts friendship quality33
Is obesity related to enhanced neural reactivity to visual food cues? A review and meta-analysis32
Shifting prosocial intuitions: neurocognitive evidence for a value-based account of group-based cooperation30
Childhood violence exposure and social deprivation are linked to adolescent threat and reward neural function30
The role of social isolation in opioid addiction30
A hierarchical model for interpersonal verbal communication28
Social network analysis for social neuroscientists27
Childhood trauma, brain structure and emotion recognition in patients with schizophrenia and healthy participants26
Neural response to monetary and social feedback demonstrates differential associations with depression and social anxiety23
The integration of social and neural synchrony: a case for ecologically valid research using MEG neuroimaging23
Neural correlates of negative expectancy and impaired social feedback processing in social anxiety23
How representative are neuroimaging samples? Large-scale evidence for trait anxiety differences between fMRI and behaviour-only research participants23
The neural networks underlying reappraisal of empathy for pain23
Sex differences in the human reward system: convergent behavioral, autonomic and neural evidence23
Neurobiological models of emotion regulation: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies of acceptance as an emotion regulation strategy22
The role of right temporoparietal junction in processing social prediction error across relationship contexts22
The influence of relationship closeness on default-mode network connectivity during social interactions21
Transient brain networks underlying interpersonal strategies during synchronized action21
Dynamic human and avatar facial expressions elicit differential brain responses20
Effects of HF-rTMS over the left and right DLPFC on proactive and reactive cognitive control20
Patients with anxiety disorders rely on bilateral dlPFC activation during verbal working memory20
Pattern similarity and connectivity of hippocampal-neocortical regions support empathy for pain19
Seven computations of the social brain19
Eye contact during joint attention with a humanoid robot modulates oscillatory brain activity19
Reduced feelings of regret and enhanced fronto-striatal connectivity in elders with long-term Tai Chi experience18
Neural evidence for cognitive reappraisal as a strategy to alleviate the effects of math anxiety18
Beyond the average brain: individual differences in social brain development are associated with friendship quality18
Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: a media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience18
Lasting effects of cognitive emotion regulation: neural correlates of reinterpretation and distancing17
Conducting decoded neurofeedback studies17
Being ‘in sync’—is interactional synchrony the key to understanding the social brain?17
Affective brain patterns as multivariate neural correlates of cardiovascular disease risk17
Early and late neural correlates of mentalizing: ALE meta-analyses in adults, children and adolescents16
Altered functional connectivity density and couplings in postpartum depression with and without anxiety16
The neural underpinnings of intergroup social cognition: an fMRI meta-analysis16
Emotional news affects social judgments independent of perceived media credibility15
Neural mechanisms of self-affirmation’s stress buffering effects15
Common neural and transcriptional correlates of inhibitory control underlie emotion regulation and memory control15
Neural processes for live pro-social dialogue between dyads with socioeconomic disparity15
Indignation for moral violations suppresses the tongue motor cortex: preliminary TMS evidence15
The role of anterior prefrontal cortex (area 10) in face-to-face deception measured with fNIRS15
Newborn white matter microstructure moderates the association between maternal postpartum depressive symptoms and infant negative reactivity15
Multivariate model for cooperation: bridging social physiological compliance and hyperscanning14
Context-based interpersonal relationship modulates social comparison between outcomes: an event-related potential study14
Body sway predicts romantic interest in speed dating14
When norm violations are spontaneously detected: an electrocortical investigation14
Statistical pattern recognition reveals shared neural signatures for displaying and recognizing specific facial expressions14
Becoming the King in the North: identification with fictional characters is associated with greater self–other neural overlap14
Comparing two facets of emotion perception across multiple neurodegenerative diseases14
Neural representation of the parent–child attachment from infancy to adulthood14
The relationship between childhood stress and distinct stages of dynamic behavior monitoring in adults: neural and behavioral correlates14
Teacher–student neural coupling during teaching and learning14
Inter-brain amplitude correlation differentiates cooperation from competition in a motion-sensing sports game14
Social thinking is for doing: the posterior cerebellum supports predictions of social actions based on personality traits14
Effects of acetaminophen on risk taking14
Fear conditioning prompts sparser representations of conditioned threat in primary visual cortex13
Prejudice drives exogenous attention to outgroups13
Morning brain: real-world neural evidence that high school class times matter13
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain13
Impact of exercise on older adults’ mood is moderated by sleep and mediated by altered brain connectivity13
Dorsolateral and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex track distinct properties of dynamic social behavior13
Concordance in parent and offspring cortico-basal ganglia white matter connectivity varies by parental history of major depressive disorder and early parental care13
Mind the social feedback: effects of tDCS applied to the left DLPFC on psychophysiological responses during the anticipation and reception of social evaluations13
The social brain in female autism: a structural imaging study of twins13
The orbitofrontal cortex, food reward, body weight and obesity13
How do expectant fathers respond to infant cry? Examining brain and behavioral responses and the moderating role of testosterone12
A systematic review of studies that used NIRS to measure neural activation during emotion processing in healthy individuals12
Population variability in social brain morphology for social support, household size and friendship satisfaction12
Recognizing humanity: dehumanization predicts neural mirroring and empathic accuracy in face-to-face interactions12
A feature-based network analysis and fMRI meta-analysis reveal three distinct types of prosocial decisions12
Facing stereotypes: ERP responses to male and female faces after gender-stereotyped statements12
The personality dispositions and resting-state neural correlates associated with aggressive children12
Reported maternal childhood maltreatment experiences, amygdala activation and functional connectivity to infant cry12
Morphology of the prefrontal cortex predicts body composition in early adolescence: cognitive mediators and environmental moderators in the ABCD Study12
Mortality threat mitigates interpersonal competition: an EEG-based hyperscanning study12
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum12
Neural substrates of shared visual experiences: a hyperscanning fMRI study11
Sex-specific interaction between cortisol and striato-limbic responses to psychosocial stress11
Oxytocin and the stress buffering effect of social company: a genetic study in daily life11
Midfrontal-occipital θ-tACS modulates cognitive conflicts related to bodily stimuli11
Non-invasive stimulation of the social brain: the methodological challenges11
Social optimism biases are associated with cortical thickness11
Consequences of prefrontal tDCS on inhibitory control and reactive aggression11
Inter-brain neural mechanism underlying turn-based interaction under acute stress in women: a hyperscanning study using functional near-infrared spectroscopy11
From scanners to cell phones: neural and real-world responses to social evaluation in adolescent girls11
Multivariate spatial feature selection in fMRI11
The orbitofrontal cortex spontaneously encodes food health and contains more distinct representations for foods highest in tastiness11
Windowed multiscale synchrony: modeling time-varying and scale-localized interpersonal coordination dynamics11
Situating language in a minimal social context: how seeing a picture of the speaker’s face affects language comprehension11
Neural mechanisms of reward and loss processing in a low-income sample of at-risk adolescents10
Confirmation of interpersonal expectations is intrinsically rewarding10
The brain network in support of social semantic accumulation10
Sexual dimorphism in hemispheric processing of faces in humans: A meta-analysis of 817 cases10
Shared and unique neural circuitry underlying temporally unpredictable threat and reward processing10
Dissociable neural signatures of passive extinction and instrumental control over threatening events10
Default mode network functional connectivity negatively associated with trait openness to experience10
Increasing self–other similarity modulates ethnic bias in sensorimotor resonance to others’ pain10
Trait self-control mediates the association between resting-state neural correlates and emotional well-being in late adolescence10
Your presence soothes me: a neural process model of aversive emotion regulation via social buffering10
Neural correlates of integrated self and social processing10
Resting-state functional connectivity of neural circuits associated with primary and secondary rewards in patients with bipolar disorder10
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