Old cortex, new contexts: Re-purposing spatial perception for social cognition

Much of everyday mental life involves information that we cannot currently perceive directly, from contemplating the strengths of friendships to reasoning about the contents of other minds. Despite their primacy to everyday human functioning, and in particular, to human sociality, the mechanisms tha...

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Main Authors: Carolyn eParkinson, Thalia eWheatley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00645/full