Social cognition: thinking categorically about others.

Thinking about others: The neural substrates of social cognition

Mapping Others: Representation and Mindreading

Thinking about the representational qualities of maps and models allows one to offer a new perspective on the nature of mindreading. The recent critiques of our dominant paradigms for mindreading, theory theory and simulation theory, by enactivists such as Daniel Hutto reveal a flaw in the standard options for thinking about how we think about others. Views that rely on theorizing or simulation...

Common Brain Regions with Distinct Patterns of Neural Responses during Mentalizing about Groups and Individuals

An individual has a mind; a group does not. Yet humans routinely endow groups with mental states irreducible to any of their members (e.g., "scientists hope to understand every aspect of nature"). But are these mental states categorically similar to those we attribute to individuals? In two fMRI experiments, we tested this question against a set of brain regions that are consistently associated...

Children's Use of Social Categories in Thinking About People and Social Relationships.

A series of studies investigated White U.S. three- and four-year-old children's use of gender and race information to reason about their own and others' relationships and attributes. Three-year-old children used gender- but not race-based similarity between themselves and others to decide with whom they wanted to be friends, as well as to determine which children shared their own preferences fo...

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  Social cognition refers to how children understand Opinions, feelings, thoughts and intentions themselves and others and how they think about social relations. Processes of social cognition, enables one to predict the behavior of others, self-control and therefore regulating social interaction. In other hand, studies indicated Children and adolescents with Down syndrome have lower performance...