Behavioral and Brain Sciences· 2013Q3
Toward a second-person neuroscience
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Short summary
A new 'second-person neuroscience' is proposed to study real-time social interactions, moving beyond observing others to understanding direct engagement.
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Key points
- Social cognition differs fundamentally when interacting versus observing others.
- A 'second-person neuroscience' is proposed to study real-time social encounters.
- This approach integrates neuroimaging and psychophysiological data.
- It may offer new insights into psychiatric disorders as social cognition deficits.
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Abstract
In spite of the remarkable progress made in the burgeoning field of social neuroscience, the neural mechanisms that underlie social encounters are only beginning to be studied and could - paradoxically - be seen as representing the "dark matter" of social neuroscience. Recent conceptual and empirical developments consistently indicate the need for investigations that allow the study of real-time social encounters in a truly interactive manner. This suggestion is based on the premise that social cognition is fundamentally different when we are in interaction with others rather than merely observing them. In this article, we outline the theoretical conception of a second-person approach to other minds and review evidence from neuroimaging, psychophysiological studies, and related fields to argue for the development of a second-person neuroscience, which will help neuroscience to really "go social"; this may also be relevant for our understanding of psychiatric disorders construed as disorders of social cognition.
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