ABSTRACT
Neuroscientists and cognitive scientists have collaborated for more than a decade with the common goal of understanding how the mind works. These collaborations have helped unravel puzzles of the mind including aspects of perception, imagery, attention and memory. Many aspects of the mind, however, require a more comprehensive approach to reveal the mystery of mind-brain connections. Attraction, altruism, speech recognition, affiliation, attachment, attitudes, identification, kin recognition, cooperation, competition, empathy, sexuality, communication, dominance, persuasion, obedience, morality, contagion, nurturance, violence, and person memory are just a few. Through classic and contemporary articles and reviews, Social Neuroscience illustrates the complementary nature of social, cognitive, and biological levels of analysis and how research integrating these levels can foster more comprehensive theories of the mechanisms underlying complex behaviour and the mind.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|17 pages
Volume Overview
part 2|21 pages
The Brain Determines Social Behavior
chapter 1|8 pages
The Return of Phineas Gage
part 3|32 pages
Dissociable Systems for Attention, Emotion, and Social Knowledge
part 4|24 pages
Dissociable Systems for Face and Object Processing
part 5|33 pages
Dissociable Systems for the Perception of Biological Movement
part 6|22 pages
Biological movement
chapter 10|9 pages
Action Observation Activates Premotor and Parietal Areas in a Somatotopic Manner
chapter 11|10 pages
Neural Mechanisms of Empathy in Humans
part 7|30 pages
Animacy, Causality, and Theory of Mind
chapter 12|15 pages
Movement and Mind
chapter 13|12 pages
People Thinking about Thinking People
part 8|28 pages
Social Perception and Cognition
part 9|27 pages
Decision Making
part 10|32 pages
Biological Does Not Mean Predetermined