How Does the Brain Infer Hidden Social Structures?

Carolyn Parkinson, Meng Du

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Article in Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

Similarity Among Friends Serves as a Social Prior: The Assumption That "Birds of a Feather Flock Together" Shapes Social Decisions and Relationship Beliefs.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2024
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The Anatomy of Friendship: Neuroanatomic Homophily of the Social Brain among Classroom Friends.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2022
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Human Representation Learning.Annual review of neuroscience · 2021
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4 · The record

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Social structure learning in human anterior insula.2020

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Carolyn ParkinsonUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Psychology, 1285 Psychology Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; UCLA Brain Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: cparkinson@ucla.edu.

Meng DuUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Psychology, 1285 Psychology Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

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.

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Social BehaviorSocial LearningBrainCognitionHumansInterpersonal Relationslatent structure learningsocial categorizationsocial cognitionsocial inferencesocial neuroscience

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PMID32451240

DOI10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.002

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