Social Cognitive Neuroscience Flashcards
(22 cards)
What is social cognition?
Generating shared representations with others.
The responding and initiating joint attention in children.
Children have the “urge to share”
MUNDY & NEWELL
unlike apes
TOMASELLO
What are the “Old” brain areas?
Basal ganglia
cerebellum
What is mimicry an example of?
Automatic, implicit alignment.
What are the socio-emotional consequences of mimicry?
Mimicked people tend to like their mimickers more and engage in more pro-
social behaviour.
What are mirror neurons in monkeys?
Mirror neurons fire when a monkey performs an action (e.g., grabbing a peanut) and when it observes the same action being performed by someone else.
Where are mirror neurons found in monkeys?
Ventral premotor cortex (F5)
Inferior parietal cortex (PF)
What is the function of the Mirror Neuron System (MNS)?
The MNS mirrors others’ actions directly in our own motor system, aiding in action understanding and imitation.
What areas are involved in the human mirror neuron system (MNS)?
Ventral premotor cortex
Inferior parietal lobule
Who coined the mirror neuron system?
Rizzolatti
What can Embodiment be observed by?
Contributions from “body-related” brain areas that control actions and posture.
What role does FEF play in Social cognition?
Frontal Eye Fields control;
Saccades (quick eye movements)
Voluntary attention shifts
Gaze perception
These all overlap suggesting a role in gaze mirroring- Understand & mimicking where others are looking.
Who set up the Associative learning and mirror neurons experiment?
Cecilia Heyes
Can you re-wire the MNS (restrain it)?
Catmur- “some”
Initially stronger response in hands.
After retraining, stronger response in foot.
Who is responsible for the hypothesis;
Is the broken MNS hypothesis
for Autism really true?
Hamilton
Is the MNS broken in Autism?
Maybe partly, because hand-based action understanding was
typical, but face-based action mirroring (imitation) revealed atypicalities.
Explain cognitive empathy.
DELIBERATE Alignments of Bodies and Minds:
Understanding and representing other’s
mental states (experiences, beliefs, desires)
What is level-1 perspective taking?
Know what the other can perceive.
When do children learn what others can see?
18-24 months
Who coined “Do apes really understand that seeing is knowing?”
Povinelli
What was the biggest fault in Povinelli’s set-up?
The apes interacted only with humans.
Who coined “Do apes know what another ape can or cannot see?”
Brauer
