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The Social Brain: Neural Basis of Social Knowledge
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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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Metadata
- Authors
- Adolphs, R.
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Adolphs, Ralph
- ORCID
- Adolphs, Ralph
- Venue
- Annual Review of Psychology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2009-01-01
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 693-716
- ISSN
- 0066-4308 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2085
- PMC
- PMC2588649
- OpenAlex
- W2128662472
- Semantic Scholar
- 15b93199f09d393a3a660b0ec9fa4b5af8d88080
- Cited by
- 1,827
- References
- 194
- Citations by year
- 2026: 110 · 2025: 109 · 2024: 103 · 2023: 129 · 2022: 118 · 2021: 133 · 2020: 112 · 2019: 171 · 2018: 102 · 2017: 128 · 2016: 107 · 2015: 81 · 2014: 80 · 2013: 98 · 2012: 94
- FWCI
- 6.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Annual Review of Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH080721, R01MH067681)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (P01NS019632)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Keywords
- social cognition, social brain, theory of mind, mentalization, automatic versus controlled processing, functional neuroimaging, social information processing, human social behavior
- MeSH terms
- Amygdala, Animals, Brain, Brain Mapping, Empathy, Biological Evolution, Facial Expression, Humans, Nerve Net, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Self Concept, Social Behavior, Prefrontal Cortex, Personal Construct Theory
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