PSYC 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Amygdala, Psychopathy, Limbic System
21 Jan 2016
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Different emphasis in studying cognitive vs. social aspects of. Types of signals enabling social communication (relating to others, Links social and cognitive behaviors and looks for neurobiological. Also found in other mammals with complex social structures. Adolphs: processes that subserve behavior in response to. Understanding mental states of others (theory of mind) Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis (social brain hypothesis): (bats, dolphins) Hard to generate non-social situations e. g. as controls. Our brain has a set of structures that support socio-cognitive (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) behaviors (cid:1) brain regions are driven by their connections with other brain regions. Not one specific region associated with one specific region. Activity-dependent interactions between regions sharpens their functionality to a narrower set of circumstances e. g. social processes. 1) during infancy, no clear evidence for social brain network, although individual structures may have come online individually. 2) at some point, the whole network emerges, and not in region- by-region manner.
