What can other animals tell us about human social cognition?An evolutionary perspective on reflective and reflexive processing

Human neuroscience has seen a recent boom in studies on reflective, controlled, explicit social cognitive functions like imitation, perspective‐taking, and empathy. The relationship of these higher‐level functions to lower‐level, reflexive, automatic, implicit functions is an area of current researc...

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Main Authors: Erin E Hecht, Richard ePatterson, Aron K Barbey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00224/full