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The social brain: neural basis of social knowledgeRalph Adolphs
California Institute of Technology Caltech, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 60:693-716. 2009..Here I provide a broad survey of the key abilities, processes, and ways in which to relate these to data from cognitive neuroscience...- Conceptual challenges and directions for social neuroscienceRalph Adolphs
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Neuron 65:752-67. 2010..It may well be that social neuroscience in the near future will give us an entirely new view of who we are, how we evolved, and what might be in store for the future of our species... 
Social cognition: feeling voices to recognize emotionsRalph Adolphs
Division of Humanities and Social Science and Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Curr Biol 20:R1071-2. 2010....- Lesion mapping of cognitive control and value-based decision making in the prefrontal cortexJan Gläscher
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences and Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:14681-6. 2012..By contrast, regions in the ventral PFC were required for decision-making. These findings provide detailed causal evidence for a remarkable functional-anatomical specificity in the human PFC... - Intact rapid detection of fearful faces in the absence of the amygdalaNaotsugu Tsuchiya
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Nat Neurosci 12:1224-5. 2009..We conclude that the amygdala is not essential for early stages of fear processing but, instead, modulates recognition and social judgment... - Anterior prefrontal cortex contributes to action selection through tracking of recent reward trendsChristopher K Kovach
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
J Neurosci 32:8434-42. 2012.... - Personal space regulation by the human amygdalaDaniel P Kennedy
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Nat Neurosci 12:1226-7. 2009..The amygdala may be required to trigger the strong emotional reactions normally following personal space violations, thus regulating interpersonal distance in humans... - Social and monetary reward learning engage overlapping neural substratesAlice Lin
California Institute of Technology, Computations and Neural Systems, MC 136 93 Pasadena, CA 91125 7700, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 7:274-81. 2012..Taken together, the findings support the hypothesis that shared anatomical substrates are involved in the computation of both monetary and social rewards... - A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdalaFlorian Mormann
Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Nat Neurosci 14:1247-9. 2011..This selectivity appeared to be independent of emotional valence or arousal and may reflect the importance that animals held throughout our evolutionary past... - Economic games quantify diminished sense of guilt in patients with damage to the prefrontal cortexIan Krajbich
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
J Neurosci 29:2188-92. 2009..Instead, the findings argue for a specific insensitivity to guilt, an abnormality that we suggest characterizes a key contribution made by the VMPFC to social behavior... - Lesion mapping of cognitive abilities linked to intelligenceJan Gläscher
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Neuron 61:681-91. 2009..Our findings provide comprehensive lesion maps of intelligence factors, and make specific recommendations for interpretation and application of the WAIS to the study of intelligence in health and disease... 
Looking at other people: mechanisms for social perception revealed in subjects with focal amygdala damageRalph Adolphs
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Novartis Found Symp 278:146-59; discussion 160-4, 216-21. 2007..Ongoing studies in our laboratory examine face-to-face social interactions with real people in an attempt to link the above impairments in the laboratory to the dysfunctional social cognition seen in everyday life...- Impaired fixation to eyes following amygdala damage arises from abnormal bottom-up attentionDaniel P Kennedy
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:3392-8. 2010.... - Insensitivity to social reputation in autismKeise Izuma
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:17302-7. 2011..The results argue that people with autism lack the ability to take into consideration what others think of them and provide further support for specialized neural systems mediating the effects of social reputation... - Role of the amygdala in processing visual social stimuliRalph Adolphs
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, HSS 228 77, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Prog Brain Res 156:363-78. 2006..Finally, we argue that the term emotion be broadened to include increased attention to bodily responses and their representation in cortex... - Distinct face-processing strategies in parents of autistic childrenRalph Adolphs
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Curr Biol 18:1090-3. 2008.... - Abnormal use of facial information in high-functioning autismMichael L Spezio
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, 228 77, California Institute of Technology, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 37:929-39. 2007..These findings provide a novel quantitative assessment of how people with autism utilize information in faces when making social judgments... - Contributions of the amygdala to reward expectancy and choice signals in human prefrontal cortexAlan N Hampton
Computation and Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Neuron 55:545-55. 2007..These findings support a critical role for the human amygdala in establishing expected reward representations in PFC, which in turn may be used to guide behavioral choice... - The social brain in psychiatric and neurological disordersDaniel P Kennedy
California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Blvd, HSS 228 77, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 16:559-72. 2012..We suggest that the social brain, and its dysfunction and recovery, must be understood not in terms of specific structures, but rather in terms of their interaction in large-scale networks... - Perspective distortion from interpersonal distance is an implicit visual cue for social judgments of facesRonnie Bryan
Computation and Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e45301. 2012..These results demonstrate a novel facial cue influencing a range of social judgments as a function of interpersonal distance, an effect that may be processed implicitly... - Intact bilateral resting-state networks in the absence of the corpus callosumJ Michael Tyszka
Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
J Neurosci 31:15154-62. 2011..The results argue that a normal complement of resting-state networks and intact functional coupling between the hemispheres can emerge in the absence of the corpus callosum, favoring the second over the first possibility listed above... - What does the amygdala contribute to social cognition?Ralph Adolphs
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1191:42-61. 2010..These aspects help to clarify the amygdala's contributions to recognizing emotion from faces, to social behavior toward conspecifics, and to reward learning and instrumental behavior... - Fear, faces, and the human amygdalaRalph Adolphs
Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 18:166-72. 2008..A large current research effort extends the amygdala's putative role to a number of psychiatric illnesses... - Amygdala damage impairs eye contact during conversations with real peopleMichael L Spezio
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
J Neurosci 27:3994-7. 2007..These novel findings from real social interactions are consistent with an hypothesized role for the amygdala in autism and the approach taken here opens up new directions for quantifying social behavior in humans... - Agenesis of the corpus callosum: genetic, developmental and functional aspects of connectivityLynn K Paul
California Institute of Technology, MC 228 77 Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 8:287-99. 2007..The study of AgCC could provide insight into the integrated cerebral functioning of healthy brains, and may offer a model for understanding certain psychiatric illnesses, such as schizophrenia and autism... - Emotional arousal in agenesis of the corpus callosumLynn K Paul
California Institute of Technology, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, CA 91125, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 61:47-56. 2006.... - Preferring one taste over another without recognizing eitherRalph Adolphs
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Nat Neurosci 8:860-1. 2005..The pattern of brain damage responsible for the dissociation suggests that reliable behavioral choice among tastes can occur in the absence of the gustatory cortex necessary for taste recognition... - Impaired judgments of sadness but not happiness following bilateral amygdala damageRalph Adolphs
University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:453-62. 2004..The findings suggest that the amygdala's role in processing of emotional facial expressions encompasses multiple negatively valenced emotions, including fear and sadness... - A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damageRalph Adolphs
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Nature 433:68-72. 2005..This finding provides a mechanism to explain the amygdala's role in fear recognition, and points to new approaches for the possible rehabilitation of patients with defective emotion perception... - Dynamic construction of stimulus values in the ventromedial prefrontal cortexAlison Harris
Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e21074. 2011.... - How do we know the minds of others? Domain-specificity, simulation, and enactive social cognitionRalph Adolphs
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, HSS 228 77, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Brain Res 1079:25-35. 2006..Experiments from our own laboratory point to the amygdala as one structure that is critically involved in such processes... - Neural systems responding to degrees of uncertainty in human decision-makingMing Hsu
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, 228-77, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Science 310:1680-3. 2005..Neurological subjects with orbitofrontal lesions were insensitive to the level of ambiguity and risk in behavioral choices. These data suggest a general neural circuit responding to degrees of uncertainty, contrary to decision theory... - Reduced social preferences in autism: evidence from charitable donationsAlice Lin
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
J Neurodev Disord 4:8. 2012..abstract:.. - Emotion and consciousnessNaotsugu Tsuchiya
California Institute of Technology, HSS 228 77, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 11:158-67. 2007..The intersection of consciousness and emotion is ripe for experimental investigation, and we outline possible examples for future studies... - Amygdala damage impairs emotional memory for gist but not details of complex stimuliRalph Adolphs
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Nat Neurosci 8:512-8. 2005..The data support a model whereby the amygdala focuses processing resources on gist, possibly accounting for features of traumatic memories and eyewitness testimony in real life... - Becoming a better person: temporal remoteness biases autobiographical memories for moral eventsJessica R Escobedo
Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Emotion 10:511-8. 2010..The effect was independent of chronological age, ethnicity, gender or personality, arguing for a general emotional bias in how we construct our moral autobiography... - Amygdala damage eliminates monetary loss aversionBenedetto De Martino
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:3788-92. 2010..The findings suggest that the amygdala plays a key role in generating loss aversion by inhibiting actions with potentially deleterious outcomes... - Perception of emotions from facial expressions in high-functioning adults with autismDaniel P Kennedy
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Neuropsychologia 50:3313-9. 2012..We thus demonstrate a subtle but specific pattern of impairments in facial emotion perception in people with autism... - Temporal isolation of neural processes underlying face preference decisionsHackjin Kim
Divisions of Humanities and Social Sciences and Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA corrected
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:18253-8. 2007..The findings support a model in which rapid, automatic engagement of the NAC conveys a preference signal to the OFC, which in turn is used to guide choice... - Analysis of face gaze in autism using "Bubbles"Michael L Spezio
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, HSS 228 77, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Neuropsychologia 45:144-51. 2007..The findings provide novel detail to the abnormal way in which people with autism look at faces, an impairment that likely influences all subsequent face processing... - Reprint of: Impaired fixation to eyes following amygdala damage arises from abnormal bottom-up attentionDaniel P Kennedy
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, United States
Neuropsychologia 49:589-95. 2011....