The repurposed social brain

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 133-141

  Parkinson, Carolyn ^a   Wheatley, Thalia ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural recycling; Evolution; Neural reuse; Social intelligence

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

BRAIN REGIONS; EVOLUTION; NEURAL REUSE; NEURAL SYSTEMS; SOCIAL BRAINS; SOCIAL FUNCTION; SOCIAL INFORMATION PROCESSING; SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE;

BRAIN;

BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; LIFESPAN; NEUROSCIENCE; REVIEW; REWARD; SOCIAL STATUS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; CULTURE; HUMANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84933510100     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.01.003     Document Type: Review

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