PSYCH361 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Mirror Neuron, Temporal Lobe, Social Group
7 Mar 2019
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Suggests that primates, including humans, differed from non-primates principally in the complexity of their social skills. Fiske assumed that humans are fundamentally sociable and that societies throughout the world can be understood in regard to how people organize their relations with other people. Emotionality has largely evolved within a social context. Brain structures involved in social interactions can be organized in terms of three processes: 1. First process involves higher level neocortical regions that process sensory information: 2. Our sensory system also helps us to predict what people will do socially, based on their physical movements: 3. Third process involves the higher cortical regions of the neocortex. Overall, the three-part brain system in which sensory information is processed in the sensory cortex, its emotional value determined in structures such as the amygdala, and the social implications determined by the prefrontal cortex.
