Overview of Social Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience: a Brief Overview

Computational and mathematical modeling is an increasingly useful approach for investigating the functionality of the nervous system. Though such modeling has been used for decades, recent advances in computational power and numerical techniques have greatly expanded its scope, with a corresponding increase in research activity. This paper presents a brief – and necessarily incomplete – review ...

Correlations in Social Neuroscience

Vul, Harris, Winkielman, and Pashler (2009, this issue) claim that many brain–personality correlations in fMRI studies are ‘‘likely . . . spurious’’ (p. xx), and ‘‘should not be believed’’ (p. xx). Several of their conclusions are incorrect. First, they incorrectly claim that whole-brain regressions use an invalid and ‘‘nonindependent’’ two-step inferential procedure, a determination based on a...

rEflECTiONS ON SOCial NEurOSCiENCE

686 Tiffany A. Ito, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado. Preparation of this paper was supported by National Institute of Mental Health grant R01MH071257 and National Science Foundation grant 0847872. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Tiffany Ito, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 345 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80...

The neuroscience of social interaction

The increasing refinement of fMRI has given neuroscientists insights into how the living cortex participates in a host of human scenarios. This approach has had a dramatic impact on the study of social interactions. Suddenly fields as diverse as robotics, primate behaviour, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and child psychology have a dynamic relationship to socially crippling conditions such as au...

The Neuroscience of Social Cognition