Sentences with phrase «social cognition processes»

It has been shown that the superior temporal sulcus (STS) is highly implicated in social processes, from perception of socially relevant information, such as body movements or eye gaze, to more complex social cognition processes.

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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.

After several months of computer training, the participant pairs then joined to form a small group focused on social cognition, or thinking abilities involved in understanding others and processing social information.

«This is consistent with the idea that intelligence depends to a large extent on social and emotional abilities, and we should think about intelligence in an integrated fashion rather than making a clear distinction between cognition and emotion and social processing.

Even though a biomarker shared by schizophrenia and autism might not reveal anything specific to autism, he adds, it might highlight a neural process that is central to social cognition, and that might be altered in several conditions, including autism.

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.

Individuals with brain injury experience deficits in emotional processing and social cognition, most notably the inability to recognize emotions expressed by facial features.

We study the processes underlying motivated cognition and their influence on self perception, social cognition and decision - making, as well as their impact on real - world outcomes.

These are the parts of the brain that are responsible for self - processing and social cognition.

He treats this as a fundamentally dynamic process, and is interested in how basic visual perception of other people may be shaped by stereotypes and biases, prior knowledge, and other aspects of social cognition.

Specifically, there was a reduction in grey matter in the prefrontal and temporal cortexes, which are the areas that correspond with social cognition and self - focused processing.

The definition continues: «Traumatic brain injury applies to open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgment; problem - solving; sensory, perceptual, and motor abilities; psycho - social behavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech.

His critical interests concern the intersection of processes, motivations, and outcomes in music, art and design; art as a social practice; and generally, the nature of cognition and aesthetic experience.

This process has been studied extensively in social psychology as implicit associations and implicit attitudes, a component of implicit cognition.

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.

A schematic of (a) the amygdala subregions in coronal view that we hypothesize are anchors for (b) three large - scale networks subserving processes important for social cognition.

Pavlova, M.A. (2012) Biological motion processing as a hallmark of social cognition.

Self and identity, emotion, social rejection and belongingness, aggression, sexuality, self - control, self - esteem, interpersonal processes, defensiveness and self - deception, self - defeating behaviors, quest for meaning, motivated cognition, interdisciplinary approaches to psychology.

A more recent study completed by Dr. Elseline Hoekzema, published in 2016, indicates that the gray matter in areas associated with social cognition (where we store, process, and use information about other people) decreases, creating a «pruning» effect that results in a mother's focused attunement to her baby.

At the end of the treatment and in the follow up, the social cognition measures highlighted some improvements, for instance in the recognition of mental states from facial expression and gaze and in the mentalistic reasoning processes.

Tables IV, V and VI show the results of the logistic regression analyses at T1, T2 and longitudinally predicting ever smoking by demographics (Step 1), anti-smoking parenting practices (Step 2), attitudes, social influences and self - efficacy (Step 3), and intention (Step 4), in order to shed light on the process by which parenting practices operate on smoking behavior and the role of smoking - specific cognitions and intention herein.

Fischer and colleagues [21] proposed a theoretical framework that extends socio - cognitive models of learning [22] and the more recent General Learning Model [23], and explains elevated levels of risk taking in relation to media exposure not only through priming effects of risk - positive cognitions and emotions, but also through changes in the self - concept, due to (1) situational cues in the media that risk taking is rewarding instead of potentially dangerous, (2) through habitation processes and changes in risk - related social norms, and (3) through identification processes that are stronger in active vs. passive media consumption.

Social cognition includes the social information processing underlying the individual's social and emotional behSocial cognition includes the social information processing underlying the individual's social and emotional behsocial information processing underlying the individual's social and emotional behsocial and emotional behavior.

Social cognition fuses elements of social and cognitive psychology in order to understand how people process, remember, or distort social informSocial cognition fuses elements of social and cognitive psychology in order to understand how people process, remember, or distort social informsocial and cognitive psychology in order to understand how people process, remember, or distort social informsocial information.

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).

An integrated model of emotion processes and cognition in social information processing.

More technically, social cognition refers to how people deal with conspecifics (members of the same species) or even across species (such as pet) information, include four stages: encoding, storage, retrieval, and processing.

RIPP draws from theories of social cognition, problem - solving, and emotional processes that are essential in controlling aggressive behavior and in increasing social competence.

Social cognition is «a sub-topic of social psychology that focuses on how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situaSocial cognition is «a sub-topic of social psychology that focuses on how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situasocial psychology that focuses on how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situasocial situations.

Topics examined in social psychology include: the self concept, social cognition, attribution theory, social influence, group processes, prejudice and discrimination, interpersonal processes, aggression, attitudes and stereotypes.

In addition, we focus on how these processes go awry in developmental disorders marked by impairments in social cognition, such as autism spectrum disorder, and conduct disorder.

Topics include, for example, the physiological and psychological consequences of social isolation vs. support, social emotions, social cognition and attribution, attachment processes, self - esteem and dependence regulation, stereotype threat, interpersonal communication and influence, self - regulation, impression management, and relationship maintenance.

This course covers central concepts in social psychology such as social cognition, attitudes, group processes, interpersonal relationships, aggression, political psychology and ideology.

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

For instance, parental stress seems to be associated to both anxiety and avoidance of attachment, because of the difficulties they imply in coping with distress, but in different ways: more avoidant women attribute negative distress to a characteristic of the baby and not situational factors; more anxious women make more mistakes in recognizing fear and attribute distress to physical factors, then they could show an out of sync response to the babies» distress signs (Leerkes and Siepak, 2006; for a complete review of a social cognition approach to parenting processes and behaviors, see: Jones et al., 2015a, b).

His seminal work showed how cognitive and motivational processes shape our conceptions and memories of ourselves, as exemplified by his classic 1979 JPSP with Fiore Sicoly, helped set the intellectual stage for the explosion of motivated social cognition research that has advanced our understanding of self - esteem, relationships, and social judgment in the decades that followed.