The Social Brain

Neural Basis of Social Knowledge

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5777617
AutoresRalph Adolphs (0000-0002-8053-9692, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California 91125, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen60
Número1
Páginas693-716
Fecha de publicación2008-09-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnnual Review of Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0066-4308 • E-ISSN: 1545-2085
EditorialAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev.psych.60.110707.163514
PMID18771388
PMCIDPMC2588649
OpenAlexW2128662472
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas118
Referencias citadas164

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

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