Basics of social cognitive and affective neuroscience;
I. Introduction

Czech version

Authors: F. Koukolík
Authors‘ workplace: Primář: MUDr. František Koukolík DrSc ; Oddělení patologie a molekulární medicíny ; Národní referenční laboratoř prionových chorob ; Fakultní Thomayerova nemocnice s poliklinikou, Praha
Published in: Prakt. Lék. 2010; 90(12): 695-700
Category: Editorial

Overview

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience (SCAN) has been developing for about 20 years. Cognitive science is considered the starting point of SCAN. The advancement of SCAN was brought about by functional imaging methods, which have a lot of limits stemming from the problem of atlas concordance. SCAN conceptualizes the functional anatomy of the brain as a set of so-called conectoms, large-scale neuronal networks. SCAN is concerned with social perception, inference and interactions.

Neuroeconomics,

neuropolitics,

neurosthetics,

moral and legal decisions

are parts of this framework. A lot of current research has been centred on the development of infants and adolescents, aging and gender differences. Cultural and comparative neuroscience is an emerging field.

Key words:
social cognitive and affective neuroscience, connectome, social perception, social inference, social interaction

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