Social Neuroscience
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I.e., the study of the brain systems especially involved in social interaction.
See also: Cognitive Science; Emotion; Ethics, Game Theory and Biology; Evolutionary Psychology; Judgment, Choice and Human Decision-Making; Neuropsychology;
- To read:
- David M. Amodio and Chris D. Frith, "Meeting of minds: the medial frontal cortex and social cognition", Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7 (2006): 268--277
- Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Joel Winston and Uta Frith, "Social cognitive neuroscience: where are we heading?", Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8 (2004): 216--222
- John Cacioppo (ed.), Foundations of Social Neuroscience
- Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec, "Neuroeconomics: How neuroscience can inform economics" [PDF; thanks to G. E. Wimmer for the pointer]
- Peter T. Ellison andn Peter B. Gray (eds.), Endocrinology of Social Relationships
- Susan T. Fiske and Shelley E. Taylor, Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture
- Leonardo Fogassi, Pier Francesco Ferrari, Benno Gesierich, Stefano Rozzi, Fabian Chersi, and Giacomo Rizzolatti, "Parietal Lobe: From Action Organization to Intention Understanding", Science 308 (2005): 662--667
- Walter Glannon (ed.), Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science: Essential Readings in Neuroethics
- Paul Glimcher, Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics
- Alvin I. Goldman, Simulating Minds: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading
- William A. Harris, A Physiological Investigation of Social Status (PhD dissertation, Stanford University, Department of Sociology, 1981)
- Andrea S. Heberlein and Ralph Adolphs, "Impaired spontaneous anthropomorphizing despite intact perception and social knowledge", PNAS 101 (2004): 7487--7491
- Esther Herrmann, Josep Call, Mar{\'i}a Victoria Hern{\`a}ndez-Lloreda, Brian Hare and Michael Tomasello, "Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis", Science 317 (2007): 1360--1366
- Thomas R. Insel and Russell D. Fernald, "How the Brain Processes Social Information: Searching for the Social Brain", Annual Review of Neuroscience 27 (2004): 697--722
- Pierre Jacob and Marc Jeannerod, "The Motor Theory of Social Cognition: A Critique", Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9 (2005): 21--25
- Rajesh K. Kana, Timothy A. Keller, Vladimir Cherkassky, Nancy J. Minshew and Marcel Adam Just, "Atypical frontal-posterior synchronization of Theory of Mind regions in autism during mental state attribution", Social Neuroscience forthcoming (2008) [preprint]
- Christian Keysers and David I. Perrett, "Demystifying social cognition: a Hebbian perspective", Trends in Cognitive Science 8 (2004): 501--507
- Dharshan Kumaran and Eleanor A. Maguire, "The Human Hippocampus: Cognitive Maps or Relational Memory?", The Journal of Neuroscience 25 (2005): 7254--7259
- Michael Marmot, The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity
- Jason P. Mitchell, Mahzarin R. Banaji and C. Neil Macrae, "The Link between Social Cognition and Self-Referential Thought in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex", The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 17 (2005): 1306--1315 [The Vygotskian take would be that self-referential thought actually dervies from social cognition; I should keep this in mind when reading the paper.]
- Jorge Moll, Roland Zahn, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, Frank Krueger & Jordan Grafman, "The Neural Basis of Human Moral Cognition", Nature Reviews Neuroscience 6 (2005): 799--809
- Susanne Quadflieg, David J. Turk, Gordon D. Waiter, Jason P. Mitchell, Adrianna C. Jenkins, and C. Neil Macrae, "Exploring the Neural Correlates of Social Stereotyping", Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 21 (2009): 1560--1570
- Giacomo Rizzolatti and Laila Craighero, "The Mirror-Neuron System", Annual Review of Neuroscience 27 (2004): 169--192
- Jay Schulkin, Roots of Social Sensibility and Neural Function
- Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology
- Damon Tomlin, M. Amin Kayali, Brooks King-Casas, Cedric Anen, Colin F. Camerer, Steven R. Quartz and P. Read Montague, "Agent-Specific Responses in the Cingulate Cortex During Economic Exchanges", Science 312 (2006): 1047--1050
- Roland Zahn, Jorge Moll, Frank Krueger, Edward D. Huey, Griselda Garrido, and Jordan Grafman, "Social concepts are represented in the superior anterior temporal cortex", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 104 (2007): 6430--6435
- Tadeusz Wieslaw Zawidzki, Mindshaping: A New Framework for Understanding Human Social Cognition
