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Neuronale Mechanismen sozialer Kognition unter genetischem Einfluss

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Die sozialen Neurowissenschaften haben in den letzten Jahren ein explosives Wachstum erfahren. Ergebnisse dieses noch jungen Forschungsgebiets eröffnen neue Perspektiven für diverse Bereiche ‒ von Biologie und Evolutionsforschung, Sozialwissenschaften und Philosophie bis hin zur Ökonomie (Adolphs 2003). In diesem Rahmen ergeben sich auch neue Aufschlüsse über die ToM, nämlich dann, wenn es gelingt, neuronale Submodule für einzelne Aspekte der sozialen Kognition abzugrenzen und zum übergreifenden Konzept einer ToM in Beziehung zu setzen (Tager-Flusberg u. Sullivan 2000). Methoden zur Abbildung von Korrelaten der Hirnfunktion in vivo, insbesondere die funktionelle Kernspintomographie (fMRT bzw. fMRI), haben hierzu entscheidend beigetragen, weil die Darstellung regional funktionell differenzierter Hirnaktivität im Rahmen der doch kognitiv meist komplexen sozial relevanten Verhaltensfunktionen wesentliche Hinweise auf solche Submodule liefern kann (Tost et al. 2005). Diese Befunde können mit tierexperimentellen, neuroanatomischen und neurophysiologischen Daten in Beziehung gesetzt werden, um so hoffentlich am Ende mechanistische oder zumindest doch testbare Hypothesen über solche Subfunktionen und ihr funktionelles Korrelat zu liefern.

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Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2012). Neuronale Mechanismen sozialer Kognition unter genetischem Einfluss. In: Förstl, H. (eds) Theory of Mind. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24916-7_7

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