Cognitive neuroscience investigates how cognitive function is produced by the brain. Seen from a reverse angle, cognitive neuroscience studies how brain activity is modulated by the execution of cognitive tasks. In the former case, cognitive function is characterized in terms of neural properties associated with the execution of given cognitive tasks, while in the latter it can be thought of as...

Insights from social and cognitive neuroscience should inform the design of socially assistive robots for neurorehabilitation as novel roles emerge them in human-human interactions.