Social Neuroscience Key Readings

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: Key Readings 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 behavior and the mind.

About the EditorsAcknowledgmentsPrefacePART 1Volume Overview: Analyses of the Social Brain through the Lens of Human Brain Imaging John T. Cacioppo & Gary G. BerntsonPART 2The Brain Determines Social BehaviorReading 1: The Return of Phineas Gage: Clues about the Brain from the Skull of a Famous Patient Hanna Damasio, Thomas Grabowski, Randall Frank, Albert M. Galaburda & Antonio R. Damasio Reading 2: Impairment of Social and Moral Behavior Related to Early Damage in Human Prefrontal Cortex Steven W. Anderson, Antoine Bechara, Hanna Damasio, Daniel Tranel & Antonio R. DamasioPART 3Dissociable Systems for Attention, Emotion, and Social KnowledgeReading 3: Dissociable Prefrontal Brain Systems for Attention and EmotionHiroshi Yamasaki, Kevin S. LaBar & Gregory McCarthy Reading 4: Distinct Neural Systems Subserve Person and Object KnowledgeJason P. Mitchell, Todd F. Heatherton & C. Neil Macrae Reading 5: Functional Networks in Emotional Moral and Nonmoral Social JudgmentsJorge Moll, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, Ivanei E. Bramati & Jordan GrafmanPART 4Dissociable Systems for Face and Object ProcessingReading 6: Stages of Processing in Face Perception: An MEG Study Jia Liu, Alison Harris & Nancy KanwisherReading 7: Distributed and Overlapping Representations of Faces and Objects in Ventral Temporal Cortex James V. Haxby, M. Ida Gobbini, Maura L Furey, Alumit Ishai, Jennifer L. Schouten & Pietro PietriniPART 5Dissociable Systems for the Perception of Biological MovementReading 8: Brain Areas Active during Visual Perception of Biological Motion Emily D. Grossman & Randolph BlakeReading 9: Electrophysiology and Brain Imaging of Biological MotionAina Puce & David Perrett PART 6Biological Movement: From Perception to Imitation and EmotionReading 10: Action Observation Activates Premotor and Parietal Areas in a Somatotopic Manner: An fMRI Study G. Buccino, F. Binkofski, G.R. Fink, L. Fadiga, L. Fogassi, V. Gallese, R.J. Seitz, K. Zilles, G. Rizzolatti & H.J. FreundReading 11: Neural Mechanisms of Empathy in Humans: A Relay from Neural Systems for Imitation to Limbic Areas Laurie Carr, Marco Iacoboni, Marie-Charlotte Dubeau, John C. Mazziotta & Gian Luigi LenziPART 7Animacy, Causality, and Theory of MindReading 12: Movement and Mind: A Functional Imaging Study of Perception and Interpretation of Complex Intentional Movement PatternsFulvia Castelli, Francesca Happé, Uta Frith & Chris Frith Reading 13: People Thinking about Thinking People: The Role of the Temporo-Parietal Junction in "Theory of Mind"R. Saxe & Nancy Kanwisher PART 8Social Perception and Cognition: Multiple RoutesReading 14: Neural Correlates of the Automatic Processing of Threat Facial SignalsAdam K. Anderson, Kalina Christoff, David Panitz, Eve De Rosa & John D.E. GabrieliReading 15: Automatic and Intentional Brain Responses during Evaluation of Trustworthiness of FacesJ.S. Winston, B.A. Strange, J.O. O'Doherty & R.J. Dolan PART 9Decision MakingReading 16: The Neural Basis of Economic Decision-Making in the Ultimatum GameAlan G. Sanfey, James K. Rilling, Jessica A. Aronson, Leigh E. Nystrom & Jonathan D. CohenReading 17: Exploring the Neurological Substrate of Emotional and Social IntelligenceReuven Bar-On, Daniel Tranel, Natalie L. Denburg & Antoine BecharaPART 10Biological Does Not Mean Predetermined: Reciprocal Influences of Social and Biological ProcessesReading 18: Social Dominance in Monkeys: Dopamine D2 Receptors and Cocaine Self-AdministrationDrake Morgan, Kathleen A. Grant, H. Donald Gage, Robert H. Mach, Jay R. Kaplan, Osric Prioleau, Susan H. Nader, Nancy Buchheimer, Richard L. Ehrenkaufer & Michael A. NaderReading 19: Rethinking Feelings: An fMRI Study of the Cognitive Regulation of EmotionKevin N. Ochsner, Silvia A. Bunge, James J. Gross & John D.E. GabrieliAppendix: How to Read a Journal Article in Social PsychologyChristian H. Jordan and Mark P. ZannaAuthor IndexSubject Index