lecture 10 - the social brain Flashcards

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human _______ may be rooted in our evolutionary history

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hypersociality

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are there brain mechanisms that make us social
what are the 3 solutions

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yes,
1)there are specialised brain regions for processing social information
2) blurring the distinction between self and other
3)

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dunbar et al 2007
-measured different primate brain sizes against their group size

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-he found a correlation between neocortex ration(brain size) of primates (eg like monkey and apes) and their mean group size

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temporal cortex and faces - an aquiring mechanism ? social mechanism?

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-proposed that there’s something there to allow us to socially recall who the person is
-not an evolutionary given mechanism for face perception, but a mechanism for acquiring face perception

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is there a specific period we need to learn faces in order to do this the rest of our lives ?

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-seems to be a sensitive period we need to learn them
-if people don’t learn faces at a specific time they wont develop this and be able to recognise them

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experiments where children are shown faces and face like configurations (top heavy etc)
results

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-children prefer faces or what roughly look like faces
-even if features are mixed up, children will prefer the one closest to a face

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blurring the distinctions between self and others

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-sometimes called shared representations
-we process things that happen to other people the same way we would process it happening to ourselves

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seeing people or primates smiling has what response in us?

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-makes us smile, we respond emotionally to these things ,

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shared representation for self and other

mimicking
yawning

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people unconsciously and non strategically mimic the postures of the person they interreact with

-seeing someone else yawn makes you yawn

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subtle behaviours that indicate shared representation

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People automatically synchronize swinging of hand-held pendulums (Richardson et al., 2005;Schmidt & O’Brien, 1997).
 Synchronize postural sway (Shockley, Santana, & Fowler, 2003)

 The motion of rocking chairs(Goodman, Icenhower , Marsh, Schmidt, & Richardson, 2005)

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imitation and mimicry

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-study shows babies and bay primates imitate and mimic behaviours
-not sure how accurate this is , as babies have poor vision

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experience of another person…..

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experience of another person-
-map this onto our own experiences
-derive associated mental states

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mirror neurons

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fire both when the monkey performs a specific action and when he sees the same action being performed by someone else.

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