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In recent decades it has seen a growing interest to study the mechanisms involved in social behavior, much of these inquiries fall within social cognitive neuroscience approach, which is based on a representational model of information processing. However, this approach has been widely criticized for ignoring the body participation, emotional dynamics, social context, developmental changes and assuming an endogenous modular processing. In this regard, this article presents a neurodynamic model of social cognition, which understand social process from an enactive, embodied, situated, relational and systemic perspective. This model let us described the main expected changes in brain activity during ongoing social interactions and ontogeny. The conclusion highlights the challenges and opportunities that this kind of approach can provide for a coming neuroscience and social psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Social neuroscience research has focused on the processes of perception and understanding of self, in the process of emotional self-regulation, action, and in the processes that occur at the interface between one and the others. This area of research seeks holistic explanations to try to show the contribution of neural, cognitive and emotional aspects of behavior. Much of its research has been directed to the study of patients with some kind of brain injury or approaching cognitive processes such as memory, perception and language, but investigation work on chronical diseases has been scarce. The study of psychiatric disorders, broadly recurrent in the research of psychology, has been also an object of study in social neuroscience. On the other hand, according to the World Health Organization, noncommunicable diseases or chronics have been defined as diseases of long term and slow progression. The study of noncommunicable diseases has required permanently intervention of disciplines apart from medicine to be better understood. This paper will show a review about the contributions of social neuroscience in noncommunicable diseases. As an area of emergin research, social neuroscience needs to carry out research about diseases that impact directly on health population. This investigation will allow a better understanding of the deterioration caused by noncommunicable diseases, and it will expand the field of intervention of the social neuroscience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Interest in the biological basis of social cognition has grown exponentially in the last few years. One of the possible approaches consists in trying to locate which brain structures are most likely to be involved in these processes. Another area of study may be the functional and anatomical connectivity of the involved areas. In both cases researchers face the same initial difficulty: most of the processes linked to social cognition are high level processes (for example, self-concept) that often reflect emerging properties of more basic level processes (such as memory). The second common problem has to do with the theoretical and instrumental limitations (e.g. neuroimaging techniques) that have led to a paradigm of "isolated social cognition" linked to experiments without real social interaction. Taking these problems as a starting point, in this paper we seek to review in a critical manner the most important findings on the biological basis of social cognition related to others and to the self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neuroscientists have researched soda! and moral cognition based on neuroimaging experimental parameters in recent years, which make possible the construction of standardized designs in addition to quantitative and comparative analysis of brain activity between individuals holding different cultures. Soda! cognition conceives the individual's experience as the teller of processed information. Even if phenomenological approaches have manifested the analysis of the experience, the methodological insertion of these proposes into the cognitive neurosdence have represented a difficult issue. The concept of cognocentrism presented in this work is discussed as the tendency to interpret the neurocognitive experimental results with no consideration to the assessed subject's experience. Some propositions to include the analysis of experience in soda! neurosdence are given here, derived from empirical reports and methodological schemes. Particularly, it proposes to engage in a carefull yet agile use of concepts, the psicosodal recruitment of human samples and the interdisciplinary, and methodological interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article assesses the research findings of the social neuroscience from the perspective of the social psychology. A review of the literature is made for this purpose, taking as a guide Liberman's state of art (2007). The results were classified into relevant study areas of the social cognitions, one of the central issues of social psychology. Finally, a balance is made, indicating some scopes and limitations of this new field of research for the development of social psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]