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Social neuroscience is a research discipline that examines how the brain mediates social processes and behaviour. A wide range of research topics are examined within this discipline, including social interactions, agency, empathy, morality, and social prejudice and affiliations.
Siva, Bauer et al. use a motion-compatible brain imager to detect task-related brain activity in human participants walking in place. The feasibility of positron emission tomography (PET) neuroimaging of people performing motor tasks or who cannot remain still, is demonstrated.
A new study captures nearly the full repertoire of primate natural behaviour and reveals that highly distributed cortical activity maintains multifaceted dynamic social relationships.
A mark test of self-recognition in mice reveals that self-responding ventral CA1 neurons underlie mirror-induced self-directed behaviour and are shaped by social experience with conspecifics.