Sentences with phrase «complex human social interactions»

UNSETTLING it may be, but following the gaze of a virtual face during a brain scan is helping to unravel brain activity that is key to complex human social interactions: activity that may be atypical in people with autism.

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The reality of power is complex; and its use and misuse in all human, social and political relations and interactions has been a question of utmost importance for all peoples.

«Robots can't perform as well as humans when it comes to complex social interactions,» said Rodica Damian, assistant professor of social and personality psychology at the University of Houston and lead author of the study.

But the chimps» awareness of the mistreatment of others as well as themselves also lays the groundwork for complex social interactions more like those of human groups, they note.

This could help unravel the brain activity underlying the process of «joint attention», thought to be key to complex, human social interactions.

Experts have long suspected that complex social interaction drove the evolution of large brains in humans.

«Our findings suggest that social interactions that stimulate oxytocin production will recruit this newly identified circuit to help coordinate the complex behavioral responses elicited by changing social situations in all mammals, including humans,» says senior study author Nathaniel Heintz of The Rockefeller University.

And once you start pair bonding you open the door for all kinds of things, like extended childhood and more complex social interactions — all the kinds of things that humans do today.»

Humans may be unusually wimpy and helpless when they emerge from the womb, but our brains are already prepped for a lifetime of speech, complex social interaction, and deep critical thought that would be unheard of in any other species.

«It's very exciting to see the impact and the increased comfort everyone has with expressing themselves — the whole school is more engaged on understanding the complexity of social interactions, emotions and ways to positively deal with these complex parts of the human experience.»

One of the study's authors, Dorothy Gracey of the University of Vienna, said, «A relationship between a cat and a human can involve mutual attraction, personality compatibility, ease of interaction, play, affection and social support... A human and a cat mutually develop complex ritualized interactions that show substantial mutual understanding of each other's inclinations and preferences.»

It is in its complex interactions with these kinds of social contexts that climate change can make a difference, easing or aggravating multiple stresses and in some cases potentially pushing a multi-stressed human system across a threshold of sustainability (Wilbanks, 2003b).

The complex nature of human attachment and social interaction with caregivers might be one domain in which direct parallels with the animal literature are limited, potentially related to the fact that the attachment relationship between children and caregivers is a necessary scaffold for development of numerous uniquely human capacities, including emotion regulation and language (49, 50).