PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Emergence, Mood Disorder, Mentalization
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Lecture 9 supplementary reading cultural neuroscience of social cognition. Seemingly complex social skills such as inferring another"s desires or beliefs in the absence of sensory input are supported by neural activity within the right tpj. The neural substrates of religiosity found activity within theory-of-mind regions, including left precuneus, left tpj and left middle frontal gyrus, was correlated with the degree of one"s religiosity. Universally recruited brain regions associated with tom processing included the right. Sharing emotional pain of a close other is facilitated by neural activity within the. Ai and acc code the autonomic and affective dimension of pain and, in particular, the subjective experience of empathy when perceiving pain or distress in others. All participants showed greater acc and ai response to painful relative to neutral scenes; however, they also showed greater acc response to ingroup relative to outgroup members. The ability to recognize fear in another"s face.
