TY - CHAP
T1 - The Neuroscience of Social Vision
AU - Stolier, Ryan M.
AU - Freeman, Jonathan B.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by a National Science Foundation research grant (NSF-BCS-1423708) awarded to J.B.F.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Through mere visual cues, humans readily extract a variety of information about other people. In addition to bottom-up visual cues, our social perceptions are dynamically shaped by a number of top-down social factors, including stereotypes, person knowledge, motives, emotional states, and social context. In an effort to understand such biased visual perceptions of other people, social neuroscientists and researchers across the cognitive, neural, and vision sciences more broadly have come together to form an interdisciplinary "social vision" approach. In this chapter, we first outline such an approach and apply it to the functional neuroanatomy of our visually based social perception processes: identity recognition, social categorization, emotion recognition, and trait attribution. We then discuss several domains in which higher-order social factors flexibly constrain these lower-level perceptual processes. Finally, we describe current interdisciplinary perspectives on the underlying mechanisms of social vision, as well as its purpose and origin.
AB - Through mere visual cues, humans readily extract a variety of information about other people. In addition to bottom-up visual cues, our social perceptions are dynamically shaped by a number of top-down social factors, including stereotypes, person knowledge, motives, emotional states, and social context. In an effort to understand such biased visual perceptions of other people, social neuroscientists and researchers across the cognitive, neural, and vision sciences more broadly have come together to form an interdisciplinary "social vision" approach. In this chapter, we first outline such an approach and apply it to the functional neuroanatomy of our visually based social perception processes: identity recognition, social categorization, emotion recognition, and trait attribution. We then discuss several domains in which higher-order social factors flexibly constrain these lower-level perceptual processes. Finally, we describe current interdisciplinary perspectives on the underlying mechanisms of social vision, as well as its purpose and origin.
KW - Feedback
KW - Person perception
KW - Social neuroscience
KW - Social vision
KW - Ventral visual stream
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U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-12-800935-2.00007-5
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-12-800935-2.00007-5
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84967316701
SN - 9780128009352
SP - 139
EP - 157
BT - Neuroimaging Personality, Social Cognition, and Character
PB - Elsevier Inc.
ER -