PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Prefrontal Cortex, Superior Temporal Sulcus, Secondary Somatosensory Cortex
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The ability to think about one"s self and distinguish it from another is supported by neuronal activity within cortical midline structures. Inferring another"s desires or beliefs in the absence of sensory input. The neural substrates of religiosity found activity within theory- of-mind regions, including left precuneus, left tpj and left middle frontal gyrus, was correlated with the degree of one"s religiosity. Sharing emotional pain of a close other is facilitated by neural activity within the. Ai and acc code the autonomic and affective dimension of pain + subjective experience of empathy when perceiving pain or distress in others. The ability to recognize fear in another"s face. Amygdala response during emotion recognition was higher in individuals who were recent immigrants to the region, suggesting that experience alters neural responses to emotional expressions. All participants showed greater acc and ai response to painful relative to neutral scenes; however, they also showed greater acc response to ingroup relative to outgroup members.
