Summary Social Neurocognition: main topics and overview of major brain areas (grade: 8.6/10)
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Course
Sociale Neurocognitie (5102SONE6Y)
Institution
Universiteit Van Amsterdam (UvA)
This document contains an overview of the main brain areas covered in this course, and the most important components for the exam according to the professor. It is therefore not a summary/notes of the lectures themselves (!) but instead shows the most important information/repetition substance per ...
(Anterior) Insula
• Empathy
AI • Disgust
• Interoception & bodily feelings (e.g. heartbeat detection)
Ventral Tegmental Area
VTA • Reward-related dopaminergic system
• Mid-brain structure
Superior Temporal Sulcus
• Theory of mind/mentalizing
STS • Changeable aspects of faces (expressions)
• Emotion recognition
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, Temporo-Parietal Junction
• Representation of mental states
TPJ • Attention
• Embodiment
• Responds speci cally to reading about someone( else)’s
thoughts
Occipital/Fusiform Face Area
• Both areas specialized for faces
OFA/FFA • OFA: physical aspects of faces (features)
• FFA: responsive to facial identity
Medial Prefrontal Cortex
• Theory of mind/Mentalizing
mPFC • Thinking about oneself
• Extensions of oneself
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, Lecture 1
Importance of baseline/control condition
• Control condition keeps all variables, except the one being studied, constant
• If you nd a di erence in neural activity between conditions, you want this to be
because of the experimental manipulation and not due to other factors —> that is what
the control/baseline condition is for.
MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
• Maps the structural characteristics (anatomy) of the brain
fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
• Measures changes in oxygenated blood supply associated with neural activity
BOLD-signal
• Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent signal
• Change in magnetic characteristics of haemoglobin
—> can be measured with fMRI by means of HRF (Haemodynamic Response Function): this is
the change in bold response over time
fMRI analysis methods
• Univariate: activation-based
which brain regions are (de)activated in response to a stimulus?
• Multivoxel: pattern-based
Are there brain regions with a predictive value regarding the presentation of a stimulus?
• Functional connectivity
Which brain areas/voxels show similar activation over time?
EEG (Electroencephalography)
• Measures electrical signals from the brain
• Good temporal resolution
ERP (Event-Related Potential)
• Measures electrical signals from the brain linked to a speci c stimulus/event
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