R. Adolphs. Trends Cogn Science, 3 (12):
469-479(1999)
Abstract
Humans are exceedingly social animals, but the neural underpinnings of social
cognition and behavior are not well understood. Studies in humans and other primates
have pointed to several structures that play a key role in guiding social behaviors: the
amygdala, ventromedial frontal cortices, and right somatosensory-related cortex,
among others. These structures appear to mediate between perceptual representations
of socially relevant stimuli, such as the sight of conspecifics, and retrieval of knowledge
(or elicitation of behaviors) that such stimuli can trigger. Current debates concern the
extent to which social cognition draws upon processing specialized for social
information, and the relative contributions made to social cognition by innate and
acquired knowledge.
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%N 12
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%X Humans are exceedingly social animals, but the neural underpinnings of social
cognition and behavior are not well understood. Studies in humans and other primates
have pointed to several structures that play a key role in guiding social behaviors: the
amygdala, ventromedial frontal cortices, and right somatosensory-related cortex,
among others. These structures appear to mediate between perceptual representations
of socially relevant stimuli, such as the sight of conspecifics, and retrieval of knowledge
(or elicitation of behaviors) that such stimuli can trigger. Current debates concern the
extent to which social cognition draws upon processing specialized for social
information, and the relative contributions made to social cognition by innate and
acquired knowledge.
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cognition and behavior are not well understood. Studies in humans and other primates
have pointed to several structures that play a key role in guiding social behaviors: the
amygdala, ventromedial frontal cortices, and right somatosensory-related cortex,
among others. These structures appear to mediate between perceptual representations
of socially relevant stimuli, such as the sight of conspecifics, and retrieval of knowledge
(or elicitation of behaviors) that such stimuli can trigger. Current debates concern the
extent to which social cognition draws upon processing specialized for social
information, and the relative contributions made to social cognition by innate and
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