Sentences with phrase «social brain»

This is a testimony to the power of social brain washing.

He calls it the «social brain hypothesis,» which means small talk and gossip help us build and analyse the relationships we have with other people.

The work also has implications for whether scientists who study eye contact should focus on social brain regions rather than those involved in fear and anxiety.

As anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy argues, babies come equipped with social brains because our ancestors needed friends and allies to survive (Hrdy 2009).

We're launching PS Vita's all - new social brain training game, Smart As, on October 30th in North America.

Unusual Social Brains When studied in conjunction, Williams syndrome and autism provide a set of interesting and informative contrasts.

Our new social brain training experience for PlayStation Vita, Smart As, officially launches today.

«Neurodevelopmental model of Williams syndrome offers insight into human social brain.»

«Our own previous study on Facebook could only show correlation between social network size and the brain, but we could not determine the direction of causation between social brain regions and social network size,» notes Ryota Kanai of University College London, one of the researchers on the study.

With such interdisciplinary and multi-methods approach, the lab aims to promote the transfer of basic research findings into treatment for and prevention of social brain disorders ultimately providing benefits to human health.

Barrett, L., Henzi, P. & Rendall, D. Social brains, simple minds: does social complexity really require cognitive complexity?

«The original social brain analyses showed that social group size does not correlate especially well (if at all) with total brain size, but only with neocortex size... That would be difficult to reconcile with their claim.»

The article discusses the benefits of fNIRS for studies of social brain function and suggests there is a new frontier of «interactive social neuroscience» or «second - person neuroscience» developing that will allow for better understanding of the social difficulties associated with autism.

The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain.

For the last 20 years, many scientists have argued that primates evolved bigger brains to live in bigger groups, an idea known as the «social brain hypothesis.»

My name is Ian Pickles and I am the Producer from XDev Studio Europe working on PlayStation Vita's all - new social brain training experience, Smart As.

«Humans are storytelling, story - loving creatures,» says psychologist Matthew Lieberman, author of Social Brain, Social Mind.

In a study spanning molecular genetics, stem cells and the sciences of both brain and behavior, researchers at University of California San Diego, with colleagues at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies and elsewhere, have created a neurodevelopmental model of a rare genetic disorder that may provide new insights into the underlying neurobiology of the human social brain.

Learning how to plug into the power of the social brain for more effective collaborations at all levels is critical for entrepreneurs.

Science is, in his turn of phrase, «the owner's manual for the social brain in post — Stone Age suburbia.»

This sent her down the path of exploring how sociality develops at a young age, and as a piano player and ballerina, the natural fit was to use music as a way to understand the social brain.

«From lullabies to live concerts: How music and rhythm shape our social brains.»

«If it really turns on the social brain,» he says, «then it may open a window of opportunity for social learning.

When these children performed tasks involving pictures of people, brain regions involved with processing social information and emotional expression, sometimes collectively called the «social brain,» lit up in ways that resembled the brains of typically developing children.

One important way of studying the «social brain» is to look at what happens in the brain during neuro - developmental disorders associated with atypical social abilities.

Understanding the wiring of the social brain is relevant to many social settings, Christianson said.

Alun Anderson describes Robin Dunbar as the «key thinker behind the social brain hypothesis» (19 July, p 48).

The hypothesis researchers were testing is that ASD might be caused by increased or decreasedconnectivity within specific neural networks that form the «social brain.»

«Novel imaging study demonstrates how the «social brain» is functionally impaired in autism spectrum disorder.»

How are we beginning to explore the social brain?

«That might underlie the WS super-social aspect and their gregarious human brain, giving insights into autism and other disorders that affect the social brain.»

«These results begin to provide a neurochemical basis for understanding how the social brain works quite differently in males and females,» said Albers.

Functional imaging studies have also shown that autistic minds show decreased activity and connectivity in areas of the so - called «social brain» — regions important for language, face recognition and emotion.

When the authors compare diet and social life, «they're comparing apples and oranges,» says Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and one of the original authors of the social brain hypothesis.

«Every year there is some finding that fundamentally shakes up how I think about the social brain,» says University of California, Los Angeles, social psychologist Matthew Lieberman.

But this may involve trade - offs with our social brain.

This trait evolved as a by - product of the brain's attempts to make sense of an unpredictable world, and it might also keep the social brain ticking over during times of isolation («In our own image: Why we treat things like people»).

The mission of the Social Brain Lab — the joint effort of the Gazzola and Keysers group — is to understand the neural bases of these processes.

Cracking the code of this complex mapping is what the social brain lab is all about.

Because of the complexity of the task at hand, the groups of Gazzola and Keysers work together in a close, collaborative and interactive way, sharing equipment, people and ideas, to create a unique environment, the Social Brain Lab, to jointly create the critical mass of social neuroscience expertise to perform a truly multilevel effort to decipher our social brain.

The social brain lab is equipped to integrate research in humans and rodents.

Following a large - scale analysis of primates, Higham and his colleague Alex DeCasien are confident that the social brain theory does not tell the whole story.

Dr. Young's Centers bring together geneticists, neuroscientists, psychologists and psychiatrists in the Atlanta area to better understand and heal the social brain.

When the social brain hypothesis was formulated, it did not consider primates like orangutans, which have large brains despite often living solitary lives.

«All of these things are co-evolving, but the main problem with the social brain hypothesis is that it's explicitly saying that this one force is contributing more than another force,» says DeCasien.

The social brain hypothesis posits that social complexity is the primary driver of primate cognitive complexity, and that social pressures ultimately led to the evolution of the large human brain.

The evolution of the social brain: anthropoid primates contrast with other vertebrates.

Assessing sources of error in comparative analyses of primate behavior: intraspecific variation in group size and the social brain hypothesis.