Social neuroscience is a research discipline that examines how the brain mediates social processes and behaviour. A wide range of research topics are examined within this discipline, including social interactions, agency, empathy, morality, and social prejudice and affiliations.
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Mesocorticolimbic circuit mechanisms of social dominance behavior
- Tae-Yong Choi
- Sejin Jeong
- Ja Wook Koo
Reviews Open Access 02 Sept 2024 Experimental & Molecular Medicine
‘The mirror of the soul?’ Inferring sadness in the eyes
- Jonas Moosavi
- Annika Resch
- Marina A. Pavlova
Research Open Access 29 Aug 2024 Scientific Reports
Volume: 14, P: 20063
Neural populations in macaque anterior cingulate cortex encode social image identities
The anterior cingulate cortex gyrus plays an important role in social cognition. Here authors show that, in a goal-directed task without social reasoning, these neurons differentiate conspecific identities, suggesting a mechanism underlying more complex social behavior.
- Joseph Simon IV
- Erin L. Rich
Research Open Access 29 Aug 2024 Nature Communications
Volume: 15, P: 7500
Integrating stereotypes and factual evidence in interpersonal communication
- Saskia B. J. Koch
- Anna Tyborowska
- Arjen Stolk
Research Open Access 22 Aug 2024 npj Science of Learning
Volume: 9, P: 52
Aberrant neural computation of social controllability in nicotine-dependent humans
A neurocomputational model of social forward thinking shows that smokers under-estimate the influence of their actions on future interactions, a cognitive deficit associated with aberrant prefrontal and midbrain activities.
- Caroline McLaughlin
- Qi Xiu Fu
- Xiaosi Gu
Research Open Access 14 Aug 2024 Communications Biology
Volume: 7, P: 988
Hypocretin in the nucleus accumbens shell modulates social approach in female but not male California mice
- Pei X. Luo
- Alexandra Serna Godoy
- Brian C. Trainor
