New Frontiers in Social Neuroscience

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Автор: Jean Decety • Yves Christen (Editors)

Название: New Frontiers in Social Neuroscience

Издательство: Springer

Год: 2014

Формат: pdf

Размер: 3.8Mb

Язык: Английский

Traditionally, neuroscience has considered the nervous system as an isolated entity

and largely ignored influences of the social environments in which humans and

many animal species live. However, there is mounting evidence that the social

environment affects behavior (and vice versa) across species, from microbes to

humans. Vertebrate species display a remarkable range in social organization, from

living relatively asocial and territorial lives, to being socially monogamous and

living as bonded pairs, to being highly gregarious and living in large social groups.

There is also considerable diversity in social behavior between individuals of a

given species, which can be shaped by early social relationships, neuroendocrine

state, and genetic factors.

Contents

1.What’s So Social About the Social Brain?

2.The Neurobiology of a Transformation from Asocial to Social Life During Swarm Formation in Desert Locusts

3.Social Neuroscience and the Study of Animal Communication

4.The Group Mind: The Pervasive Influence of Social Identity on Cognition

5.Development + Social Selection in the Emergence of “Emotionally Modern” Humans

6. On Faces, Gazes, Votes, and Followers: Evolutionary Psychological and Social Neuroscience Approaches to Leadership

7. Using Awake Animal Imaging to Understand Neural Circuits of Emotion: Studies Ranging from Maternal Care to Aggression

8. The Neuroevolution of Empathy and Caring for Others: Why It Matters for Morality

9. The Many Faces of the Emotional Body

10. The Origins of Human Morality: Complex Socio-moral Evaluations by Preverbal Infants

11. Can Oxytocin Improve Core Brain and Behavioral Features of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Children?

12. Testosterone and Dominance in Humans: Behavioral and Brain Mechanisms