Lessons and new directions for extended cognition from social and personality psychology [PDF]
This paper aims to expand the range of empirical work relevant to the extended cognition debates. First, I trace the historical development of the person-situation debate in social and personality psychology and the extended
Skorburg, Joshua August
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Basolateral and central amygdala orchestrate how we learn whom to trust
Sladky & Riva et al. investigated how human allocation of trust depends on brain activity of the amygdala, a core brain structure for social cognition.
Ronald Sladky +4 more
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Differential effects of MDMA and methylphenidate on social cognition [PDF]
Social cognition is important in everyday-life social interactions. The social cognitive effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, 'ecstasy') and methylphenidate (both used for neuroenhancement and as party drugs) are largely unknown.
Crockett, Molly J. +5 more
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Sensitizing a Gifted Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder towards Social Cognition: From Assessment to Treatment [PDF]
Social cognition difficulties are well documented in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This clinical case study reports on social cognition assessment and treatment of a gifted child, SC (9 years), with ASD and an extraordinarily high ...
Levi, Gabriel +3 more
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The social brain: neural basis of social knowledge [PDF]
Social cognition in humans is distinguished by psychological processes that allow us to make inferences about what is going on inside other people—their intentions, feelings, and thoughts.
Adolphs, Ralph
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Social inclusion of robots depends on the way a robot is presented to observers
Research has shown that people evaluate others according to specific categories. As this phenomenon seems to transfer from human–human to human–robot interactions, in the present study we focused on (1) the degree of prior knowledge about technology, in ...
Roselli Cecilia +2 more
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Do We Adopt the Intentional Stance Toward Humanoid Robots?
In daily social interactions, we need to be able to navigate efficiently through our social environment. According to Dennett (1971), explaining and predicting others’ behavior with reference to mental states (adopting the intentional stance) allows ...
Serena Marchesi +7 more
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Upper limb exercise with physical and virtual robots: Visual sensitivity affects task performance
We investigated the influence of visual sensitivity on the performance of an imitation task with the robot R1 in its virtual and physical forms. Virtual and physical embodiments offer different sensory experience to the users.
Chevalier Pauline +6 more
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In this paper, we investigate the impact of sensory sensitivity during robot-assisted training for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
P. Chevalier +5 more
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Right Temporoparietal Junction Involvement in Autonomic Responses to the Suffering of Others: A Preliminary Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study. [PDF]
Functional neuroimaging studies have emphasized distinct networks for social cognition and affective aspects of empathy. However, studies have not considered whether substrates of social cognition, such as the right temporoparietal junction (TPJ), play a
Hastings, Paul D +2 more
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