The cyborg theme, concerning the combination of organisms and machines, has been extensively explored recently. In this text, the theme is once again discussed, first, through a brief historical overview and, then, through ...

Mind wandering plays a significant role in the psychological construction of possible worlds. It has a functional connection with pretend play, autobiographical planning, and creativity. Because of its association with ...

Mindfulness is a vogue topic that has attracted the interest of many scholar people in fields of study such as medicine, psychology, business, education, among others; this has led to an increase in researches and the ...

Theory of Mind is a construct closely related to the cognitive aspect of human empathy, which refers to the ability to represent and interpret mental states in others. The term Emotion Regulation includes all processes ...

This paper is a literature review covering a selection of articles available in specialized databases and published in the period from 2006 to 2016 for scientific articles and from 2000 to 2016 for books. In total, we ...

Social deprivation, as faced by children in institutional rearing, involves socio-cognitive deficits that may persist into adolescence. In particular, two relevant domains which prove sensitive to pre-adult neurodevelopment ...