Social Cognition through the Lens of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
Joint Authors
Arioli, Maria
Crespi, Chiara
Canessa, Nicola
Source
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-18, 18 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-09-13
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
18
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Social cognition refers to a set of processes, ranging from perception to decision-making, underlying the ability to decode others’ intentions and behaviors to plan actions fitting with social and moral, besides individual and economic considerations.
Its centrality in everyday life reflects the neural complexity of social processing and the ubiquity of social cognitive deficits in different pathological conditions.
Social cognitive processes can be clustered in three domains associated with (a) perceptual processing of social information such as faces and emotional expressions (social perception), (b) grasping others’ cognitive or affective states (social understanding), and (c) planning behaviors taking into consideration others’, in addition to one’s own, goals (social decision-making).
We review these domains from the lens of cognitive neuroscience, i.e., in terms of the brain areas mediating the role of such processes in the ability to make sense of others’ behavior and plan socially appropriate actions.
The increasing evidence on the “social brain” obtained from healthy young individuals nowadays constitutes the baseline for detecting changes in social cognitive skills associated with physiological aging or pathological conditions.
In the latter case, impairments in one or more of the abovementioned domains represent a prominent concern, or even a core facet, of neurological (e.g., acquired brain injury or neurodegenerative diseases), psychiatric (e.g., schizophrenia), and developmental (e.g., autism) disorders.
To pave the way for the other papers of this issue, addressing the social cognitive deficits associated with severe acquired brain injury, we will briefly discuss the available evidence on the status of social cognition in normal aging and its breakdown in neurodegenerative disorders.
Although the assessment and treatment of such impairments is a relatively novel sector in neurorehabilitation, the evidence summarized here strongly suggests that the development of remediation procedures for social cognitive skills will represent a future field of translational research in clinical neuroscience.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Arioli, Maria& Crespi, Chiara& Canessa, Nicola. 2018. Social Cognition through the Lens of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience. BioMed Research International،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1126496
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Arioli, Maria…[et al.]. Social Cognition through the Lens of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience. BioMed Research International No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1126496
American Medical Association (AMA)
Arioli, Maria& Crespi, Chiara& Canessa, Nicola. Social Cognition through the Lens of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience. BioMed Research International. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1126496
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1126496