SynthesisSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2013
Is social categorization based on relational ingroup/outgroup opposition? A meta-analysis.
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- How acute total sleep loss affects the attending brain: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.Sleep · 2015Pooled it
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- Group membership and stereotype content jointly affect neural processing during resource allocation decisions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Within-network brain connectivity during a social optimism task is related to personal optimism and optimism for in-group members.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Commentary: A Neural Mechanism of Social Categorization.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- Group membership and racial bias modulate the temporal estimation of in-group/out-group body movements.Experimental brain research · 2018Article
- Neural bases of ingroup altruistic motivation in soccer fans.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Neural Correlates of Racial Ingroup Bias in Observing Computer-Animated Social Encounters.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- A review of neuroimaging studies of race-related prejudice: does amygdala response reflect threat?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014Review
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Abstract
Social categorization is known to be an important part of social cognition. The categorizations we use, despite their multitude, frequently take the form of the general ingroup/outgroup distinction. A meta-analysis of 33 fMRI studies, reporting selective activations to various social groups, was used to identify common neural structures responsible for relational representation of social structure. Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) analysis revealed areas in bilateral amygdala, cingulate gyrus, fusiform gyrus, right TPJ and right insula as implementing various aspects of social categorization. Activation of amygdala can be associated with modulation of behavioral response to subjectively significant stimuli. A more ventral part of anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) can be associated with self-referential reasoning about ingroup members while a more dorsal part of ACC is involved in the regulation of emotions toward outgroup members. Right insula can be engaged in the modulation of outgroup avoidance behavior. Fusiform gyrus (FG) appears to be directly involved in social categorization process via top-down modulation of social perception. Yet it is difficult to associate any of the revealed clusters with the relational ingroup/outgroup structure.
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