Uniquely human social cognition

Saxe, Rebecca

doi:10.1016/j.conb.2006.03.001

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“…The higher the TPJ gray matter volume, the more ASD individuals performed like control participants in the interactivity-detection task. This brain-behavior correlation in the ASD group is in accordance with the proposal that the right TPJ is implicated in the uniquely human capacity of social cognition, including the ability to reason and empathize with other people's mental and affective states (Frith and Frith 1999;Saxe and Kanwisher 2003;Saxe 2006;Decety and Lamm 2007) and to take others' perspectives (Blanke 2005). The present correlation is in line with recent findings: (i) posterior superior temporal volume can be linked to loneliness and the ability to recognize social signals (i.e., eye gaze; Kanai et al 2012); and (ii) enhanced social ability (i.e., imitation and perspective talking) can be obtained by stimulating right temporoparietal junction via transcranial direct current stimulation (Santiesteban et al 2012).…”

Section: Regional Gray Matter Abnormalities and Their Correlation Witsupporting

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Right Temporoparietal Gray Matter Predicts Accuracy of Social Perception in the Autism Spectrum

David

Schultz

Milne

et al. 2013

J Autism Dev Disord

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Individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show hallmark deficits in social perception. These difficulties might also reflect fundamental deficits in integrating visual signals. We contrasted predictions of a social perception and a spatialndash;temporal integration deficit account. Participants with ASD and matched controls performed two tasks: the first required spatiotemporal integration of global motion signals without social meaning, the second required processing of socially relevant local motion. The ASD group only showed differences to controls in social motion evaluation. In addition, gray matter volume in the temporalndash;parietal junction correlated positively with accuracy in social motion perception in the ASD group. Our findings suggest that socialndash;perceptual difficulties in ASD cannot be reduced to deficits in spatialndash;temporal integration

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Section: Regional Gray Matter Abnormalities and Their Correlation Witsupporting

confidence: 89%

Right Temporoparietal Gray Matter Predicts Accuracy of Social Perception in the Autism Spectrum

David

Schultz

Milne

et al. 2013

J Autism Dev Disord

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“…Thus, a full understanding of human cognition ought to take into account how cognition shapes and is shaped by social interaction. The body is our interface with others (see e.g., Adolphs, 2009;Decety & Lamm, 2007;Gallese, Keysers, & Rizzolatti, 2004;Saxe, 2006), and therefore it is possible that social interactions shape the experience we have of our body (Ambrosini, Blomberg, Mandrigin, & Costantini, 2013;Cardellicchio, Sinigaglia, & Costantini, 2012;Cardini, Tajadura-Jimenez, Serino, & Tsakiris, 2012;Costantini, Ambrosini, Sinigaglia, & Gallese, 2011;Costantini, Committeri, & Sinigaglia, 2011;Costantini et al, 2013;Serino, Giovagnoli, & Ladavas, 2009;Teneggi, Canzoneri, di Pellegrino, & Serino, 2013).…”

Section: Limits Of the Modelmentioning

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Bodily ownership and self-location: Components of bodily self-consciousness

Serino

Alsmith

Costantini

et al. 2013

Consciousness and Cognition

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a b s t r a c tRecent research on bodily self-consciousness has assumed that it consists of three distinct components: the experience of owning a body (body ownership); the experience of being a body with a given location within the environment (self-location); and the experience of taking a first-person, body-centered, perspective on that environment (perspective). Here we review recent neuroimaging studies suggesting that at least two of these components-body ownership and self-location-are implemented in rather distinct neural substrates, located, respectively, in the premotor cortex and in the temporo-parietal junction. We examine these results and consider them in relation to clinical evidence from patients with altered body perception and work on a variety of multisensory, body-related illusions, such as the rubber hand illusion, the full body illusion, the body swap illusion and the enfacement illusion. We conclude by providing a preliminary synthesis of the data on bodily self-consciousness and its neural correlates.

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“…Empathy involves experiencing emotion vicariously, and understanding the reasons for those emotions. Multiple brain regions are involved in empathy processing with anterior cingulate and anterior insular regions being of particular importance (Saxe, 2006, Singer, 2006. Nevertheless, there has been also the suggestion that the MNS is involved in empathy processing by providing an action observation framework for empathy with others.…”

Section: A Role In Empathymentioning

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Does dysfunction of the mirror neuron system contribute to symptoms in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?

Eisen

Lemon

Kiernan

et al. 2015

Clinical Neurophysiology

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Eisen et al, Mirror Neurons in ALS 2 Declaration of interest:The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper. Eisen et al, Mirror Neurons in ALS 3 Abbreviations:ALS: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; ADM: adductor digiti minimi; APB: abductor pollicic brevis; bvFTD: Behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia; FTD: Frontotemporal dementia; fMRI: functional MRI; MNS: Mirror neuron system; M1: Primary motor cortex; PTNs: Pyramidal tract neurons; vMPFC: Ventral medial prefrontal cortex. Eisen et al, Mirror Neurons in ALS 4 AbstractThere is growing evidence that mirror neurons, initially discovered over two decades ago in the monkey, are present in the human brain. In the monkey, mirror neurons characteristically fire not only when it is performing an action, such as grasping an object, but also when observing a similar action performed by another agent (human or monkey). In this review we discuss the origin, cortical distribution and possible functions of mirror neurons as a background to exploring their potential relevance in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We have recently proposed that ALS (and the related condition of frontotemporal dementia) may be viewed as a failure of interlinked functional complexes having their origins in key evolutionary adaptations. The mirror neuron system is considered by many to be the basis of primates' social cognition, with a clear evolutionary advantage. Impaired empathy and motor control has been related to a defective mirror neuron system. In ALS, the mirror neuron system might be implicated in empathy, the split-hand syndrome, gait, speech, and related languagegesture impairments.Eisen et al, Mirror Neurons in ALS 5

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Uniquely human social cognition

Cited by 820 publications

References 41 publications

Right Temporoparietal Gray Matter Predicts Accuracy of Social Perception in the Autism Spectrum

Right Temporoparietal Gray Matter Predicts Accuracy of Social Perception in the Autism Spectrum

Bodily ownership and self-location: Components of bodily self-consciousness

Does dysfunction of the mirror neuron system contribute to symptoms in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?

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