The social brain

摘要: The notion that there is a ‘social brain’ in humans specialized for social interactions has received considerable support from brain imaging and, to lesser extent, lesion studies. Specific roles the various components of are beginning emerge. For example, amygdala attaches emotional value faces, enabling us recognize expressions such as fear and trustworthiness, while posterior superior temporal sulcus predicts end point complex trajectories created when agents act upon world. It proved more difficult assign role medial prefrontal cortex, which consistently activated people think about mental states. I suggest this region may have special second-order representations needed communicative acts we represent someone else's representation our own state. These cognitive processes not specifically social, since they can be applied other domains. However, these been driven ever higher levels sophistication by complexities interaction.