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From the bottom up: The roots of social neuroscience at risk of running dry?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2013

Cindy Hamon-Hill  and
Simon Gadbois
Cindy Hamon-Hill
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience; Neuroscience Institute, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada. cindy.hamon-hill@dal.ca sgadbois@dal.ca www.gadbois.org/simon
Simon Gadbois
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience; Neuroscience Institute, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada. cindy.hamon-hill@dal.ca sgadbois@dal.ca www.gadbois.org/simon
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Abstract

A second-person neuroscience, as an emerging area of neuroscience and the behavioral sciences, cannot afford to avoid a bottom-up, subcortical, and conative-affective perspective. An example with canid social play and a modern motivational behavioral neursocience will illustrate our point.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , August 2013 , pp. 426 - 427
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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