Old cortex, new contexts: Re-purposing spatial perception for social cognition

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Parkinson, Carolyn ^a   Wheatley, Thalia ^a  

^a Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Exaptation; Metaphor; Neural reuse; Perspective taking; Posterior parietal cortex; Social distance; Social neuroscience; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FRIENDSHIP; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; NEUROSCIENCE; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIALIZATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 84886417714     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00645     Document Type: Article

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