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Perception and Action have long been considered as two separate
information processes and have accordingly been investigated in
relative isolation from one another. However, it is now
acknowledged that perception and action are functionally related.
This special issue presents original contributions from cognitive
neuroscientists and cognitive neuropsychologists who address this
area from different complementary perspectives. Functional imaging
investigations have recently extended to the study of several
cognitive processes involved in the recognition of actions or body
parts. Two papers report on brain-activation experiments in healthy
human subjects during the recognition of hand positions and during
the perception of human actions. The visual mechanisms underlying
the perception of biological movements are investigated in normal
subjects, with the use of the apparent motion paradigm. Several
papers deal with neuropsychological cases, with apraxic patients,
with Parkinson patients, and with an agnosic patient. The study of
perception and action is relevant to psychopathology, as attested
to by the work on autistic patients. A review paper on willed
action and its physiological basis is also presented.
Social Cognition brings together diverse and timely writings that
highlight cutting-edge research and theories on the development of
social cognition and social behavior across species and the life
span. The volume is organized according to two central themes that
address issues of continuity and change both at the phylogenetic
and the ontogenetic level. First, it addresses to what extent
social cognitive abilities and behaviors are shared across species,
versus abilities and capacities that are uniquely human. Second, it
covers to what extent social cognitive abilities and behaviors are
continuous across periods of development within and across the life
span, versus their change with age. This volume offers a fresh
perspective on social cognition and behavior, and shows the value
of bringing together different disciplines to illuminate our
understanding of the origins, mechanisms, functions, and
development of the many capacities that have evolved to facilitate
and regulate a wide variety of behaviors fine-tuned to group
living.
Interpersonal sensitivity refers to our ability to perceive and
respond with care to the internal states of other people,
understand the antecedents of those states, and predict the
subsequent events that will result. Guest editors neuroscientist
Jean Decety and social psychologist Dan Batson bring together in
this special issue of Social Neuroscience new research findings
from empirical studies, including work with adults and children,
genetics, functional neuroimaging, individual differences, and
behavioral measures, which examine how we process and respond to
information about our fellow individuals. By combining biological
and psychological approaches, this special issue of Social
Neuroscience sheds new light on the complex and multi-faceted
phenomenon of interpersonal sensitivity, including empathy and
sympathy.
Perception and action have long been considered as two separate
information processes and accordingly they have been investigated
in relative isolation from one another. However, it is acknowledged
that perception and action are functionally related.
This special issue on perception and action presents original
contributions from cognitive neuroscientists and cognitive
neuropsychologists who address this area from different
complementary perspectives.
Functional imaging investigations have recently extended to the
study of several cognitive processes involved in the recognition of
actions or body parts. Two papers report on brain-activation
experiments in healthy human subjects during the recognition of
hand positions and during the perception of human actions. The
visual mechanisms underlying the perception of biological movements
are investigated in normal subjects, with the use of the apparent
motion paradigm. Several papers deal with neuropsychological cases,
with apraxic patients, with Parkinson patients, and with an agnosic
patient. The study of perception and action is relevant to
psychopathology, as attested to by the work on autistic patients. A
review paper on willed action and its physiological basis is also
presented.
Traditionally, neuroscience has considered the nervous system as an
isolated entity and largely ignored influences of the social
environments in which humans and many animal species live. However,
there is mounting evidence that the social environment affects
behavior across species, from microbes to humans. This volume
brings together scholars who work with animal and human models of
social behavior to discuss the challenges and opportunities in this
interdisciplinary academic field.
Social Cognition brings together diverse and timely writings that
highlight cutting-edge research and theories on the development of
social cognition and social behavior across species and the life
span. The volume is organized according to two central themes that
address issues of continuity and change both at the phylogenetic
and the ontogenetic level. First, it addresses to what extent
social cognitive abilities and behaviors are shared across species,
versus abilities and capacities that are uniquely human. Second, it
covers to what extent social cognitive abilities and behaviors are
continuous across periods of development within and across the life
span, versus their change with age. This volume offers a fresh
perspective on social cognition and behavior, and shows the value
of bringing together different disciplines to illuminate our
understanding of the origins, mechanisms, functions, and
development of the many capacities that have evolved to facilitate
and regulate a wide variety of behaviors fine-tuned to group
living.
The complexities of the brain and nervous system make neuroscience
an inherently interdisciplinary pursuit, one that comprises
disparate basic, clinical, and applied disciplines. Behavioral
neuroscientists approach the brain and nervous system as
instruments of sensation and response; cognitive neuroscientists
view the same systems as a solitary computer with a focus on
representations and processes. The Oxford Handbook of Social
Neuroscience marks the emergence of a third broad perspective in
this field. Social neuroscience emphasizes the functions that
emerge through the coaction and interaction of conspecifics, the
neural mechanisms that underlie these functions, and the
commonality and differences across social species and
superorganismal structures. With an emphasis on the neural,
hormonal, cellular, and genetic mechanisms underlying social
behavior, social neuroscience places emphasis on the associations
and influences between social and biological levels of
organization. This complex interdisciplinary perspective demands
theoretical, methodological, statistical, and inferential rigor to
effectively integrate basic, clinical, and applied perspectives on
the nervous system and brain. Reflecting the diverse perspectives
that make up this field, The Oxford Handbook of Social Neuroscience
brings together perspectives from across the sciences in one
authoritative volume.
Cross-disciplinary, cutting-edge work on human empathy from the
perspectives of social, cognitive, developmental and clinical
psychology and cognitive/affective neuroscience. In recent decades,
empathy research has blossomed into a vibrant and multidisciplinary
field of study. The social neuroscience approach to the subject is
premised on the idea that studying empathy at multiple levels
(biological, cognitive, and social) will lead to a more
comprehensive understanding of how other people's thoughts and
feelings can affect our own thoughts, feelings, and behavior. In
these cutting-edge contributions, leading advocates of the
multilevel approach view empathy from the perspectives of social,
cognitive, developmental and clinical psychology and
cognitive/affective neuroscience. Chapters include a critical
examination of the various definitions of the empathy construct;
surveys of major research traditions based on these differing views
(including empathy as emotional contagion, as the projection of
one's own thoughts and feelings, and as a fundamental aspect of
social development); clinical and applied perspectives, including
psychotherapy and the study of empathy for other people's pain;
various neuroscience perspectives; and discussions of empathy's
evolutionary and neuroanatomical histories, with a special focus on
neuroanatomical continuities and differences across the
phylogenetic spectrum. The new discipline of social neuroscience
bridges disciplines and levels of analysis. In this volume, the
contributors' state-of-the-art investigations of empathy from a
social neuroscience perspective vividly illustrate the potential
benefits of such cross-disciplinary integration. Contributors C.
Daniel Batson, James Blair, Karina Blair, Jerold D. Bozarth, Anne
Buysse, Susan F. Butler, Michael Carlin, C. Sue Carter, Kenneth D.
Craig, Mirella Dapretto, Jean Decety, Mathias Dekeyser, Ap
Dijksterhuis, Robert Elliott, Natalie D. Eggum, Nancy Eisenberg,
Norma Deitch Feshbach, Seymour Feshbach, Liesbet Goubert, Leslie S.
Greenberg, Elaine Hatfield, James Harris, William Ickes, Claus
Lamm, Yen-Chi Le, Mia Leijssen, Abigail Marsh, Raymond S.
Nickerson, Jennifer H. Pfeifer, Stephen W. Porges, Richard L.
Rapson, Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory, Rick B. van Baaren, Matthijs L.
van Leeuwen, Andries van der Leij, Jeanne C. Watson
The complexities of the brain and nervous system make neuroscience
an inherently interdisciplinary pursuit, one that comprises
disparate basic, clinical, and applied disciplines. Behavioral
neuroscientists approach the brain and nervous system as
instruments of sensation and response; cognitive neuroscientists
view the same systems as a solitary computer with a focus on
representations and processes.
The Oxford Handbook of Social Neuroscience marks the emergence of a
third broad perspective in this field. Social neuroscience
emphasizes the functions that emerge through the coaction and
interaction of conspecifics, the neural mechanisms that underlie
these functions, and the commonality and differences across social
species and superorganismal structures.
With an emphasis on the neural, hormonal, cellular, and genetic
mechanisms underlying social behavior, social neuroscience places
emphasis on the associations and influences between social and
biological levels of organization. This complex interdisciplinary
perspective demands theoretical, methodological, statistical, and
inferential rigor to effectively integrate basic, clinical, and
applied perspectives on the nervous system and brain.
Reflecting the diverse perspectives that make up this field, The
Oxford Handbook of Social Neuroscience brings together perspectives
from across the sciences in one authoritative volume.
Interpersonal sensitivity refers to our ability to perceive and
respond with care to the internal states of other people,
understand the antecedents of those states, and predict the
subsequent events that will result. Guest editors neuroscientist
Jean Decety from the University of Chicago and social psychologist
Dan Batson from the University of Kansas bring together, in this
special issue of Social Neuroscience, new research findings from
empirical studies, including work with adults and children,
genetics, functional neuroimaging, individual differences, and
behavioral measures, which examine how we process and respond to
information about our fellow individuals. By combining biological
and psychological approaches, this special issue of Social
Neuroscience sheds new light on the complex and multi-faceted
phenomenon of interpersonal sensitivity, including empathy and
sympathy.
An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human
morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated
integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms.
Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a
variety of fields has allowed us to understand human moral
sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional,
and motivational mechanisms shaped through evolution, development,
and culture. Evolutionary biologists have shown that moral
cognition evolved to aid cooperation; developmental psychologists
have demonstrated that the elements that underpin morality are in
place much earlier than we thought; and social neuroscientists have
begun to map brain circuits implicated in moral decision making.
This volume offers an overview of current research on the moral
brain, examining the topic from disciplinary perspectives that
range from anthropology and neurophilosophy to justice and law. The
contributors address the evolution of morality, considering
precursors of human morality in other species as well as uniquely
human adaptations. They examine motivations for morality, exploring
the roles of passion, extreme sacrifice, and cooperation. They go
on to consider the development of morality, from infancy to
adolescence; findings on neurobiological mechanisms of moral
cognition; psychopathic immorality; and the implications for
justice and law of a more biological understanding of morality.
These new findings may challenge our intuitions about society and
justice, but they may also lead to more a humane and flexible legal
system. Contributors Scott Atran, Abigail A. Baird, Nicolas
Baumard, Sarah Brosnan, Jason M. Cowell, Molly J. Crockett, Ricardo
de Oliveira-Souza, Andrew W. Delton, Mark R. Dadds, Jean Decety,
Jeremy Ginges, Andrea L. Glenn, Joshua D. Greene, J. Kiley Hamlin,
David J. Hawes, Jillian Jordan, Max M. Krasnow, Ayelet Lahat, Jorge
Moll, Caroline Moul, Thomas Nadelhoffer, Alexander Peysakhovich,
Laurent Pretot, Jesse Prinz, David G. Rand, Rheanna J. Remmel, Emma
Roellke, Regina A. Rini, Joshua Rottman, Mark Sheskin, Thalia
Wheatley, Liane Young, Roland Zahn
Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by
scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to
psychoanalysis. There are many reasons for scholars to investigate
empathy. Empathy plays a crucial role in human social interaction
at all stages of life; it is thought to help motivate positive
social behavior, inhibit aggression, and provide the affective and
motivational bases for moral development; it is a necessary
component of psychotherapy and patient-physician interactions. This
volume covers a wide range of topics in empathy theory, research,
and applications, helping to integrate perspectives as varied as
anthropology and neuroscience. The contributors discuss the
evolution of empathy within the mammalian brain and the development
of empathy in infants and children; the relationships among
empathy, social behavior, compassion, and altruism; the neural
underpinnings of empathy; cognitive versus emotional empathy in
clinical practice; and the cost of empathy. Taken together, the
contributions significantly broaden the interdisciplinary scope of
empathy studies, reporting on current knowledge of the
evolutionary, social, developmental, cognitive, and neurobiological
aspects of empathy and linking this capacity to human
communication, including in clinical practice and medical
education.
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