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| Research article summary (published 30 Dec 2002): |
Investigating the cognitive neuroscience of social behavior.
Full Abstract
Social cognitive neuroscience is a fledgling discipline that has already accrued an impressive body of data, but important questions remain regarding the theoretical constructs and methodological approaches that it utilizes. An overview of the papers in this special issue points to several key issues facing the field. We need a theoretical vocabulary that bridges three domains:
our intuitive "folk" conceptions of other people, the explanations offered by social psychology, and the explanations offered by cognitive neuroscience. And we need a method that can extract common patterns across multiple studies, to complement strict hypothesis testing of individual studies. These issues can be addressed, in part, by giving theory and experiment equal time, and by fostering an interdisciplinary approach that includes neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, anthropology and allied disciplines.
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Author information
Author/s: Adolphs, Ralph (R);
Affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. ralph-adolphs(-atsign-)uiowa.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Neuropsychologia (Neuropsychologia), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-; vol 41 (issue 2) : pp 119-26
Dates: Created 2002/12/02; Completed 2003/03/19; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12459210, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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