How Does the Brain Infer Hidden Social Structures?. Issue 7 (July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Parkinson, Carolyn; Du, Meng
• Is Part Of: Trends in cognitive sciences. Volume 24:Issue 7(2020)
• Page Start: 497
• Page End: 498
• Publication Date: 2020-07
• Subjects: social cognition -- social categorization -- latent structure learning -- social inference -- social neuroscience; Cognitive science -- Periodicals; Cognitive neuroscience -- Periodicals; 153.05
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.002
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1364-6613

Abstract

Abstract : Many everyday thoughts and actions are shaped not only by our direct relationships with others, but also by our knowledge of relations between third-parties. Lau et al. recently demonstrated how knowledge of one type of social relation – interpersonal similarity – shapes cognition and behavior, and shed light on the neural basis of such phenomena.