Neural pathways of social cognition

Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Jellema, Tjeerd ^a   Perrett, David I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavior; Brains; Human; Mechanics; Primates; Social cognition; Superior temporal sulcus; Visual cues; Visual pathways

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923634573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198568308.013.0013     Document Type: Chapter

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