From DNA to social cognition / edited by Richard Ebstein, Simone Shamay-Tsoory, Soo Hong Chew. — New Jersey : Wiley-Blackwell, c2011. – (58.174252/F931f) |
Contents
CONTENTS
Contributors
Introduction
PART 1 EMPATHY: NEURAL BASES AND GENETIC CORRELATES
1.1 Genes Related to Autistic Traits and Empathy
1.2 The Behavioral Genetics of Human Pair Bonding
1.3 Brain Networks Supporting Empathy
1.4 The Human Mirror Neuron System and Social Cognition
1.5 Motivational Aspects of Future Thinking in the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex
PART 2 MORAL NEUROSCIENCE AND EMOTION
2.1 Contributions of the Prefrontal Cortex to Social Cognition and Moral Judgment Processes
2.2 Emotion and Moral Cognition
2.3 The Neuroanatomical Basis of Moral Cognition and Emotion
2.4 Envy and Schadenfreude: The Neural Correlates of Competitive Emotions
PART 3 Genes and Decision Making
3.1 The Somatic Marker Framework and the Neurological Basis of Decision Making
3.2 A Model of the Initial Stages of Drug Abuse: From Reinforcement Learning to Social Contagion
3.3 Extrinsic Effects and Models of Dominance Hierarchy Formation
3.4 Complex Social Cognition and the Appreciation of Social Norms in Psychiatric Disorders: Insights from Evolutionary Game Theory
3.5 From Neuroeconomics to Genetics: The Intertemporal Choices Case as an Example
Index