Sentences with phrase «social brain hypothesis»

The findings provide evidence for two related theories: the Social Brain Hypothesis and the Cultural Brain Hypothesis.

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

I put their conclusions to the researcher behind the social brain hypothesis, Robin Dunbar of the University of Oxford in the UK.

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.

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

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.

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Scientists devised the social intelligence hypothesis to explain the evolution of the human brain.

As a result, in our new hypothesis we focus less on the already well - known social, psychological, or genetic factors and much more on cognitive processes happening in the brain.

Our results call into question the current emphasis on social rather than ecological explanations for the evolution of large brains in primates and evoke a range of ecological and developmental hypotheses centred on frugivory, including spatial information storage, extractive foraging and overcoming metabolic constraints.

Both are addressed by recent developments that include: 1) a novel hyperscanning technology (functional near - infrared spectroscopy, fNIRS) that acquires hemodynamic signals simultaneously between two naturally interacting partners using a spectral absorbance technique that detects changes in hemodynamic signals acquired by surface - mounted optodes, and 2) a recently proposed Interactive Brain Hypothesis that establishes a broad theoretical framework for two - person social neuroscience.

In this paper, we tested the hypothesis that more socially connected people have brains characterized by stronger intrinsic connectivity between the amygdala and other brain regions subserving social cognition, using resting - state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (fcMRI).