PSY493H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Default Mode Network, Extrastriate Body Area, Superior Temporal Sulcus
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Self-reflexive thought: self-reflexive thought: is the ability to consider one"s own being as an object with properties and relations to others, core cognitive ability that is thought to be a part of how you define "the self" Self-reflection: requires an initial redirection of attentional focus from external sensory events to internal thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations. Important for awareness of one"s own bodily reactions (ex. heartbeat detection) insula projects to orbitofrontal cortex, which is important for making emotionally self-reflective informed decisions. Social attention and social categorization: social referencing: using non-verbal cues (ex. Gestures) to deal with ambiguous situation (ex. child looking at mother"s emotional expressions during visual cliff experiment: joint attention: directing attention to same object as another person. Social categorization: stereotypes and biases: perception of people"s identifying features is used to gauge characteristics of individuals and place them in in-group vs out-group, could have important survival functions in animals and humans that live in social groups.
