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The Oxford Handbook Of Social Neuroscience
Paperback Edition: 1
The complexities of the brain and nervous system make neuroscience an inherently interdisciplinary pursuit, one that comprises disparate basic, clinical, and applied disciplines. Behavioural neuroscientists approach the brain and nervous system as instruments of sensation and response; cognitive neuroscientists view the same systems as a solitary computer with a focus on representations and processes.
The Oxford Handbook of Social Neuroscience marks the emergence of a third broad perspective in this field. Social neuroscience emphasises the functions that emerge through the coaction and interaction of conspecifics, the neural mechanisms that underlie these functions, and the commonality and differences across social species and superorganismal structures.
With an emphasis on the neural, hormonal, cellular, and genetic mechanisms underlying social behavior, social neuroscience places emphasis on the associations and influences between social and biological levels of organisation. This complex interdisciplinary perspective demands theoretical, methodological, statistical, and inferential rigour to effectively integrate basic, clinical, and applied perspectives on the nervous system and brain.
Reflecting the diverse perspectives that make up this field, The Oxford Handbook of Social Neuroscience brings together perspectives from across the sciences in one authoritative volume.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Pages : 1136
Publication date : 2015
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the USA, Science And Technology, Social Sciences, Biology, Psychology, Neurosciences, Physiological & Neuro-psychology, Biopsychology, Social, Group Or Collective Psychology