Social kognition i mennesker gør det muligt at forstå andres intentioner, følelser og tanker, hvilket bidrager til unikke sociale adfærdsmønstre. Processerne opdeles i automatiske og kontrollerede, kontekstsensitive strategier. Ny funktionel neuroimaging viser, hvordan disse evner relaterer sig til hjernefunktioner og kognitive processer.
Titel på undersøgelse:
The Social Brain: Neural Basis of Social Knowledge.
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Hele abstrakt på originalsprog:
Social cognition in humans is distinguished by psychological processes that allow us to make inferences about what is going on inside other people-their intentions, feelings, and thoughts. Some of these processes likely account for aspects of human social behavior that are unique, such as our culture and civilization. Most schemes divide social information processing into those processes that are relatively automatic and driven by the stimuli, versus those that are more deliberative and controlled, and sensitive to context and strategy. These distinctions are reflected in the neural structures that underlie social cognition, where there is a recent wealth of data primarily from functional neuroimaging. Here I provide a broad survey of the key abilities, processes, and ways in which to relate these to data from cognitive neuroscience.