Social Behavior Flashcards
Major Structures of the Social Brain
Amygdala
Temporal Parietal Junction
Anterior Insula
Inferior Frontal Gyrus
Intra Parietal Sulcus
Medial Prefrontal Cortex
Anterior Cingulate Cortex
Amygdala (Social Behavior)
Social salience/attention
Damage: inability to detect facial expressions, emotional valance, and body language
Temporal Parietal Junction (Social Behavior)
Perspective taking
Theory of mind
You realize that someone else’s thinking
Sonder
The damage would mean you would not understand or perceive the intentions and thoughts of others
Anterior insula (Social Behavior)
Empathy
Damage would mean difficulty sharing or understanding the emotions of others
Inferior Frontal Gyrus (IFG) (Social Behavior)
language production
Damage, inability to produce coherent speech
Interparietal Sulcus (IPS) (Social Behavior)
Social Hierarchies
Social Distance (Physical)
Insula connectivity increases when you choose to trust a friend over a stranger
Damadge EG: Issues with acknowledging lawful authority
Medial Prefrontal Cortex (mPFC) (Social Behavior) (Social Behavior)
Social knowledge
patient EVR
Damadge: reduce self-awareness and social expertise, empathy, decision-making, social, and behavioral judgment
Anterior Cingulate Cortex (Social Behavior) (Social Behavior)
Learning social values
Damage: Unable to recognize social mistakes and adjust behavior accordingly.
A counterargument to the claim that there even is a “social brain”.
Social behavior is a result of stimulus processing and other cognitive processes as opposed to a “social brain”.
Also, brain locations associated with social behavior also perform other tasks.
Social Intelligence Hypothesis
Human brains developed into larger and better organs in response to cognitive challenges and complex societal/social frameworks.
