• Alcalá-López et al. 2017
    Computing the Social Brain Connectome Across Systems and States
    Cerebral Cortex. May 18th: 1-26.
    D. Alcalá-López, J. Smallwood, E. Jefferies, F. Van Overwalle, K. Vogeley, J. Moll, R. B. Mars, A. R. Laird, P. T. Fox, S. B. Eickhoff, D. Bzdok

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    ABSTRACT: Social skills probably emerge from the interaction between different neural processing levels. However, social neuroscience is fragmented into highly specialized, rarely cross-referenced topics. The present study attempts a systematic reconciliation by deriving a social brain definition from neural activity meta-analyses on social-cognitive capacities. The social brain was characterized by meta-analytic connectivity modeling evaluating coactivation in task-focused brain states and physiological fluctuations evaluating correlations in task-free brain states. Network clustering proposed a functional segregation into (1) lower sensory, (2) limbic, (3) intermediate, and (4) high associative neural circuits that together mediate various social phenomena. Functional profiling suggested that no brain region or network is exclusively devoted to social processes. Finally, nodes of the putative mirror-neuron system were coherently cross-connected during tasks and more tightly coupled to embodied simulation systems rather than abstract emulation systems. These first steps may help reintegrate the specialized research agendas in the social and affective sciences.
    Keywords: systems neuroscience, statistical learning, social cognition, meta-analytic connectivity modeling, resting-state correlations, Brainmap database
    Submitted by: danilo
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    Last modified: 2016-08-15 18:38:23
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