NBB 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Face Perception, Ventral Anterior Nucleus, Middle Temporal Gyrus

• School: Emory University
• Department: Neuroscience & Behavioral Sci
• Course: NBB 302
• Professor: Gillian Hue

Document Summary

Social cognitive neuroscience - new field that aims to tackle the problem of understanding how brain function supports the cognitive processes underlying social behavior. Anatomical substrates of social cognition: pfc - anterior aspect of the frontal lobe, lateral aspect of pfc is divided into dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Iv: damage to ofc leads to socially inappropriate behavior, disorders: autism, asperger"s syndrome, and childhood disintegrative disorder, rett syndrome, and pervasive development disorders, autism. Focus on internal thoughts or inanimate external stimuli. Have difficulty identifying emotions and mental states from facial expressions. Hypothesis: have mindblindness - people with autism have deficiencies in the ability to understand mental states of others. Craik and robert lockhart"s levels of processing model of memory: depth of processing profoundly affects the storage of information. Information processed in a more meaningful way is remembered better than information processed more superficially.