How the brain processes social information: Searching for the social brain

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue , 2004, Pages 697-722

  Insel, Thomas R ^a   Fernald, Russel D ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Imprinting; Oxytocin; Parental care; Vomeronasal

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MATE CHOICE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIETY; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; IMPRINTING (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY; PAIR BOND; PARENTING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIALIZATION; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 3943064343     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.27.070203.144148     Document Type: Review

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