Summary: Great ape cognition is highly individualized, dynamic, and structurally distinct from human intelligence. Tracking 48 chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans over 18 months, researchers determined that individual cognitive differences…
Tag: social cognition
How Your Brain Sizes Up Others in Real-Time
Summary: Whether you’re negotiating a contract or playing a friendly game of rock-paper-scissors, your brain is constantly “sizing up” the other person—a process scientists call adaptive mentalization. A new study…
Brain Region That Links Language to Social Cognition Identified
Summary: Researchers discovered that neural activity in the left ventral temporoparietal junction (vTPJ) and the lateral anterior temporal lobe (lATL) during sentence processing is tied to social-semantic working memory. Previously,…
