ANT 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Prefrontal Cortex, Intersubjectivity, Socially Responsible Investing
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How the growth of our embodied brains in the intensely social niche is understood. Be able to understand other people"s subjective experience. Two levels of mind reading that humans end up developing from early infancy to later childhood and so on. Implicit attentiveness and mirroring: capacity to read people"s emotional expresses, supported by same brain areas that support complex learning processes (temporal parietal junction) Early attainment of large brains: attentiveness and mirroring build potential to learn over lifetime. Precunius: cluster of neurons that is located medially (close to mid line) than temporal parietal junction. Important association areas, become active when we try to interpret the emotions of ourselves and of others. Capacity to be attentive to what others are expressing: make inferences, draw up memories: depends on implicit capacity and mirroring. Stay ahead of what somebody is going to do by getting an associative sense of what they are doing.
