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Social Neuroscience

Key Readings

• Edited by John T. Cacioppo, Gary G. Berntson

• Price: $42.95 $38.66
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 312
• Published by: Psychology Press
• Publication Date: 29th December 2004
• ISBN: 978-1-84169-099-5

About the Book

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.

Table of Contents

About the Editors
Acknowledgments
Preface

PART 1
Volume Overview: Analyses of the Social Brain through the Lens of Human Brain Imaging
John T. Cacioppo & Gary G. Berntson

PART 2
The Brain Determines Social Behavior

Reading 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. Damasio

PART 3
Dissociable Systems for Attention, Emotion, and Social Knowledge

Reading 3: Dissociable Prefrontal Brain Systems for Attention and Emotion
Hiroshi Yamasaki, Kevin S. LaBar & Gregory McCarthy

Reading 4: Distinct Neural Systems Subserve Person and Object Knowledge
Jason P. Mitchell, Todd F. Heatherton & C. Neil Macrae

Reading 5: Functional Networks in Emotional Moral and Nonmoral Social Judgments
Jorge Moll, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, Ivanei E. Bramati & Jordan Grafman

PART 4
Dissociable Systems for Face and Object Processing

Reading 6: Stages of Processing in Face Perception: An MEG Study
Jia Liu, Alison Harris & Nancy Kanwisher

Reading 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 Pietrini

PART 5
Dissociable Systems for the Perception of Biological Movement

Reading 8: Brain Areas Active during Visual Perception of Biological Motion
Emily D. Grossman & Randolph Blake

Reading 9: Electrophysiology and Brain Imaging of Biological Motion
Aina Puce & David Perrett

PART 6
Biological Movement: From Perception to Imitation and Emotion

Reading 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. Freund

Reading 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 Lenzi

PART 7
Animacy, Causality, and Theory of Mind

Reading 12: Movement and Mind: A Functional Imaging Study of Perception and Interpretation of Complex Intentional Movement Patterns
Fulvia 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 8
Social Perception and Cognition: Multiple Routes

Reading 14: Neural Correlates of the Automatic Processing of Threat Facial Signals
Adam K. Anderson, Kalina Christoff, David Panitz, Eve De Rosa & John D.E. Gabrieli

Reading 15: Automatic and Intentional Brain Responses during Evaluation of Trustworthiness of Faces
J.S. Winston, B.A. Strange, J.O. O'Doherty & R.J. Dolan

PART 9
Decision Making

Reading 16: The Neural Basis of Economic Decision-Making in the Ultimatum Game
Alan G. Sanfey, James K. Rilling, Jessica A. Aronson, Leigh E. Nystrom & Jonathan D. Cohen

Reading 17: Exploring the Neurological Substrate of Emotional and Social Intelligence
Reuven Bar-On, Daniel Tranel, Natalie L. Denburg & Antoine Bechara

PART 10
Biological Does Not Mean Predetermined: Reciprocal Influences of Social and Biological Processes

Reading 18: Social Dominance in Monkeys: Dopamine D2 Receptors and Cocaine Self-Administration
Drake 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. Nader

Reading 19: Rethinking Feelings: An fMRI Study of the Cognitive Regulation of Emotion
Kevin N. Ochsner, Silvia A. Bunge, James J. Gross & John D.E. Gabrieli

Appendix: How to Read a Journal Article in Social Psychology
Christian H. Jordan and Mark P. Zanna

Author Index
Subject Index