The "social brain" is highly sensitive to the mere presence of social information: An automated meta-analysis and an independent study.

ABSTRACT: How the human brain processes social information is an increasingly researched topic in psychology and neuroscience, advancing our understanding of basic human cognition and psychopathologies. Neuroimaging studies typically seek to isolate one specific aspect of social cognition when trying to map its neural substrates. It is unclear if brain activation elicited by different social cognitive processes and task instructions are also spontaneously elicited by general social information. In this study, we investigated whether these brain regions are evoked by the mere presence of social information using an automated meta-analysis and confirmatory data from an independent study of simple appraisal of social vs. non-social images. Results of 1,000 published fMRI studies containing the keyword

SUBMITTER: Tso IF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5933734 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature