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TY - JOUR AU - Adolphs, Ralph PY - 2003 DA - 2003/03/01 TI - Cognitive neuroscience of human social behaviour JO - Nature Reviews Neuroscience SP - 165 EP - 178 VL - 4 IS - 3 AB - Regions of extrastriate cortex, including the fusiform and superior temporal gyri, are activated by biologically salient stimuli, such as faces and biological motion stimuli. A set of structures serves to modulate cognition and behaviour on the basis of the motivational properties of stimuli. This set includes the amygdala, the ventral striatum and the orbitofrontal cortex. Reasoning about, volitional guidance of, and self-regulation of social behaviour draws on regions of the brain that represent emotional response and actions, and that integrate goals with behaviour. These include right somatosensory cortices, the left frontal operculum and anterior cingulate cortices. Pathological social behaviour is seen in diseases ranging from autism to psychopathy. Although most such disorders are heterogeneous in etiology, the amygdala and prefrontal cortex have been implicated in their development. SN - 1471-0048 UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn1056 DO - 10.1038/nrn1056 ID - Adolphs2003 ER -