Recent studies have begun to elucidate the roles played in social cognition by specific
neural structures, genes, and neurotransmitter systems. Cortical regions in the temporal lobe …

Social cognitive neuroscience is an emerging discipline that seeks to explain the
psychological and neural bases of socioemotional experience and behavior. Although …

Humans are exceedingly social animals, but the neural underpinnings of social cognition
and behavior are not well understood. Studies in humans and other primates have pointed …

We are an intensely social species—it has been argued that our social nature defines what
makes us human, what makes us conscious or what gave us our large brains. As a new …

Although recent research has shown that social cognition and emotion engage overlapping
regions of the brain, few accounts of this overlap have been offered. What systems might be …

Who we are as humans has a lot to do with what happens between our ears. What happens
between our ears has a lot to do with the social world we traverse, engage, and react to. The …

" James Watson once said,'there are only molecules; everything else is sociology.'His
tongue-in-cheek arrogance reminds us of the great gulf that once separated the'two cultures' …

The field of social cognitive neuroscience has captured the attention of many researchers
during the past ten years. Much of the impetus for this new field came from the development …

Social neuroscience, often viewed as studying the neural foundations of social cognition,
has roots in multiple disciplines. This paper argues that it needs a firmer base in social …

Discussions of the neural underpinnings of social cognition frequently emphasize the
distinctiveness of human social cognition. Here, however, we review the discovery of similar …