Sentences with phrase «human social cognition»

In early - modern social science theory, John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte, and others, laid the foundation for social psychology by asserting that human social cognition and behavior could, and should, be studied scientifically like any other natural science.

One of the distinctive attributes of human social cognition is our tendency to build models of other minds, which helps us make inferences about the mental states of others.

Coping with germs and people: Investigating the link between pathogen threat and human social cognition.

Coping with pathogens and people: Nature's fingerprints on the links between pathogen resistance and human social cognition.

By studying these disorders, scientists can learn a lot about human social cognition.

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- Cognitive Neuroscience The Cognitive Neuroscience emphasis seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time.

«The superior temporal sulcus or the amygdala are implicated in humans and macaques, suggesting that the brain networks involved in processing social information in humans has evolved from a network that was already performing computations related to social cognition in rhesus macaques,» says Jerome Sallet, one of the University of Oxford researchers who performed the study.

Being nice «The great complexity of human social interactions and the huge variation in what we find rewarding compared with other primates prompts questions about whether the anterior cingulate gyrus operates similarly in the human brain,» Matthew Apps and Narender Ramnani, who work on neuroimaging and human cognition at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, told Nature in an email.

Evan MacLean, director of the Arizona Canine Cognition Center at the University of Arizona, found that dogs and 2 - year - old children show similar patterns in social intelligence, much more so than human children and one of their closest relatives: chimpanzees.

«Stress, including the stress of racial discrimination, affects cortisol levels and sleep, which are important for cognition and learning,» said study senior author Emma Adam, a professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Ressocial policy at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy ResSocial Policy and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research.

Put another way, with complicated, highly social human thought — and the complicated genetics at the root of higher cognition — perhaps there is just more that can go wrong: complex function begets complex malfunction.

Program seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through time.

There's more to these findings than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really do possess a level of social cognition comparable to humans and other large primates, the birds might serve as better animal models to study this kind of behavior in the lab — which could help scientists understand why some humans are better at this kind of inference than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.

She continued, «Overall, differences in brain organization and social cognition may go a long way towards explaining why Neanderthals went extinct whereas modern humans survived.»

A comparison of Neanderthal and human brains has revealed it was a matter of allocation: Neanderthal brains focused more on vision and movement, leaving less room for cognition related to social networking.

This workshop will highlight the latest perspectives on the role of oxytocin in social cognition and neural function in a variety of species ranging from fish to humans.

«Play,» Christakis says, «is the fundamental building block of human cognition, emotional health, and social behavior.»

Dr. Clive Wynne will be discussing all aspects of the research being carried at the Canine Science Collaboratory, including research in social reinforcement, odor discrimination in learning and the effects of odor on behavior, as well as gesture studies Canine cognition, domestic dogs and human gestures, domestic dogs, human speech and more.

But there has never been demonstrated in humans a critical period for anything related to cognition or emotional development or social development.

Based on our synthesis of published anatomical and functional data in humans and nonhuman animals (see Materials and Methods), we hypothesized that the amygdala would parse into three subregions that each anchor a large - scale network of brain regions implicated in distinct processes of social cognition.

Humans have evolved specialized skills of social cognition: the cultural intelligence hypothesis.

Infant and Child Temperament; Development of emotion and emotion regulation; Human Developmental Neuroscience; Development of social cognition; Infant social cognition.

Special consideration is given to the following topics: models of individual - society relationships; social cognition and attribution processes; social influence processes; prosocial and altruistic behavior; and antisocial behavior (models of human violence and social - cultural determinants of prejudice).

Although ascribing sophisticated, human - like minds to others is central to social cognition and behavior, dehumanization is an all - too - common phenomenon.

Other theorists, such as Lev Vygotsky, have regarded social cognition, or knowledge about people and social processes, as fundamental to human development.

A critical review of the influence of oxytocin nasal spray on social cognition in humans: evidence and future directions.

Human neuroimaging of oxytocin and vasopressin in social cognition.