Social Cognition and the Prefrontal Cortex

Wood, Jacqueline N.

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“…Social context consists of abstract, invisible, highly integrated multimodal information that encompasses the physical environment and social parameters including knowledge and memories accumulated through past social experiences. We chose to record from prefrontal cortex (PFC) because as the highest cortical association area (Fuster, 2000;Iriki, 2006;Matsumoto, Suzuki, & Tanaka, 2003;Miller, 2000) it is thought to play important roles in social cognition (Brunet-Gouet & Decety, 2006;Damasio, 1995;Mah, Arnold, & Grafman, 2004;Wood, 2003) and decision-making. Here we reveal how primate prefrontal neurons contributed to social adaptive behavior while the social-environmental parameters of conflictÁnonconflict and dominanceÁ submissiveness were manipulated as pairs of monkeys performed a simple food-grab task.…”

Section: Social State Representation In Prefrontal Cortexmentioning

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Social state representation in prefrontal cortex

Fujii

Hihara

Nagasaka

et al. 2009

Social Neuroscience

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One of the cardinal mental faculties of humans and other primates is social brain function, the collective name assigned to the distributed system of social cognitive processes that orchestrate our sophisticated adaptive social behavior. These must include processes for recognizing current social context and maintaining an internal representation of the current social state as a reference for decision-making. But how and where the brain processes such social-state information is unknown. To home in on the neural substrates of social-state representation, the activity of 196 prefrontal (PFC) neurons was recorded from two monkeys simultaneously during a food-grab task under varying social conditions. Of PFC neurons, 39% showed activity modulation during movement-free periods and seemed to be representing current social state. The direction of modulation was opposite between the dominant and submissive monkeys: During social engagement, PFC activity increased in the dominant monkey and was suppressed in the submissive monkey. The modulation was consistently observed in additional PFC neurons (27/72) in additional pairings with two other monkeys. Notably, PFC activity in one formerly submissive monkey switched to dominant modulation mode when he was paired with a new monkey of lower social status. These findings suggest that PFC, as part of a larger social brain network, maintains a multistate classification of social context for use as a behavioral reference for social decision-making.

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Section: Social State Representation In Prefrontal Cortexmentioning

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Social state representation in prefrontal cortex

Fujii

Hihara

Nagasaka

et al. 2009

Social Neuroscience

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“…-separate neural systems for processing immediate and delayed rewards (McClure, Laibson et al, 2004); -different processes underlying categorization (Ashby & Spiering, 2004;Smith & Grossman, 2008); -different mechanisms involved in attitudes (Wood, 2003); -autonomous systems for goal setting and goal implementation (Öztürk, 2009); -interacting but quite independent processes in decision-making (Fellows, 2004).…”

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Role behavior: A neurosociological perspective

Shkurko

2012

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Recent advances in social neuroscience show that many social phenomena can be traced back to neural processes. Major limitations and contributions of social neuroscience for a better understanding of social phenomena are considered. Social neuroscience is currently guided primarily by psychological notions and theories, thus making it inappropriate for solving sociological problems. Brain research for sociology can be increasingly useful within a branch we call neurosociology. Incorporation of data from cognitive and neuroscience may clarify the low-level structure of social phenomena and contribute to our understanding of social mechanisms. The notion of social status/role is taken as a possible subject of neurosociological research. A number of low-level brain structures and processes are shown to be relevant for the sociological notion of status/role. Examples include findings concerning the possible role of mirror neurons and oxytocin in social cognition and behavior. The idea of modularity is considered as a source of particular neurosociological hypothesis. It is also argued that the study of the neural system may contribute to a better understanding of social categorization, stratification and other macrosociological questions.

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“…Cohen et al, 2003;R. A. Cohen, Rosenbaum, Kane, Warnken, & Benjamin, 1999;Fuster, 1997;Masterman & Cummings, 1997;Wood, 2003).…”

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Correctional Remediation Meets Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Ross

Hoaken

2010

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Many correctional services have dedicated considerable effort toward offender rehabilitation programs that aim to reduce recidivism. During the past three decades, cognitive-skills-based programs have been the foundational remediation offered within correctional facilities. These programs appear to reduce recidivism in the range of 10%. One potential for further reductions is to address deficits in offenders’ executive cognitive functioning (ECF), a constellation of abilities that includes planning, inhibition, and thought flexibility. The documented ECF deficits of offenders resemble the deficits experienced by individuals with acquired brain injury or diagnosed with schizophrenia. The body of literature addressing rehabilitation efforts of these two distinct populations provides innovative and empirically supported behavioral treatment strategies that may enrich current offender rehabilitation. Recommendations for assessment and rehabilitation of ECF deficits are discussed.

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Social Cognition and the Prefrontal Cortex

Cited by 10 publications

References 175 publications

Social state representation in prefrontal cortex

Social state representation in prefrontal cortex

Role behavior: A neurosociological perspective

Correctional Remediation Meets Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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