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Brain games: Toward a neuroecology of social behavior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2013

Jean-François Gariépy ,
Steve W. C. Chang  and
Michael L. Platt
Jean-François Gariépy
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27701. jeanfrancois.gariepy@gmail.com Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708. steve.chang@duke.edu
Steve W. C. Chang
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27701. jeanfrancois.gariepy@gmail.com Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708. steve.chang@duke.edu
Michael L. Platt
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27701. jeanfrancois.gariepy@gmail.com Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708. steve.chang@duke.edu Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Levine Science Research Center, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708. platt@neuro.duke.edu http://www.neuro.duke.edu/faculty/platt/
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Abstract

In the target article, Schilbach et al. defend a “second-person neuroscience” perspective that focuses on the neural basis of social cognition during live, ongoing interactions between individuals. We argue that a second-person neuroscience would benefit from formal approaches borrowed from economics and behavioral ecology and that it should be extended to social interactions in nonhuman animals.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , August 2013 , pp. 424 - 425
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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