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| INTRODUCTION Social interactions among humans are a central feature of cognition. However, the neural substrates that underlie how people interact with one another are virtually unknown. Some progress in identifying brain structures involved in social interactions has been made (Frith and Frith, 1999), but we have little knowledge of the patterns of neural activation that drive social exchanges. There are two primary reasons for this gap in our knowledge: (1) social interactions can be exceedingly subtle and complex and (2) there has been no enabling technology that permits the simultaneous monitoring of socially interacting brains. Social psychologists and anthropologists have provided insight into the range and variety of social interactions expressed by humans. Some approaches use informed guesses about our ancestral environs and the kinds of social mechanisms required to be reproductively successful in such settings (e.g., Duchaine et al., 2001). Other approaches focus on the com | |||||||||||||||
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