The Neurobiology of Social Recognition, Attraction and Bonding (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society series B)

Contents......Page 3
Introduction. The neurobiology of social recognition, attraction and bonding......Page 4
References......Page 6
Introduction......Page 7
Chemosensory cues of MHC identity......Page 8
Major Urinary Proteins and countermarking behaviour in mice......Page 10
Coding of chemosensory individuality......Page 11
Neonatal odour learning in rodents......Page 13
Lamb-odour recognition in sheep......Page 14
The role of the MOB in social recognition......Page 15
Vomeronasal mechanisms of mate recognition......Page 16
Central areas involved in olfactory recognition of individuals......Page 18
References......Page 19
Marmosets and tamarins: primates with obligate pairbonding......Page 25
Social odours......Page 26
The role of social odours in marmosets and tamarins......Page 27
How social odours affect the brain and neuroendocrine systems......Page 29
Social odours and human reproduction......Page 31
Future directions......Page 32
References......Page 33
Introduction......Page 36
Human voice and primate vocalizations......Page 37
Are conspecific vocalizations special?......Page 38
Neurobiological evidence in non-human primates......Page 39
Functional lateralization in processing CVs......Page 40
Neuroimaging studies in non-human primates......Page 41
Specialization for voice perception in humans......Page 42
Voice-selective areas along anterior STS......Page 43
Identity information in primate vocalizations......Page 44
Behavioural evidence in non-human primates......Page 45
Behavioural evidence in humans......Page 46
Neurobiological evidence in humans......Page 47
Conclusions......Page 48
References......Page 49
Face perception: domain-specific versus domain-general hypotheses......Page 53
Evidence from neuropsychology: prosopagnosia and agnosia......Page 54
Neurophysiology and fMRI in monkeys......Page 55
Evidence from fMRI: functional specificity of the FFA......Page 56
The expertise hypothesis applied to the FFA......Page 57
Is the FFA specific not only for faces but also for bodies?......Page 59
What is the nature of the face representations in the FFA?......Page 60
Does the FFA discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar faces?......Page 61
Section summary......Page 62
Dissociation between face-selective regions (FFA, OFA and STS)......Page 63
Origins of the FFA......Page 65
Endnote1One caveat should be noted here, however. Several fMRI-adaptation studies (Tarr and Gauthier 2000) have used blocked designs, which is problematic because subjects are likely to pay less attention to a block in which the identical stimulus is p.........Page 67
References......Page 68
Introduction......Page 73
Eye contact, amygdala arousal and fear perception......Page 74
Subcortical processing of threatening stimuli......Page 75
Amygdala and gaze monitoring......Page 77
Functional dissociation between roles of left and right amygdala......Page 78
X-linked genes and the modulation of amygdala activation......Page 79
Genetic influences on amygdala function and susceptibility to psychiatric disorder......Page 80
Conclusions......Page 81
References......Page 82
Introduction......Page 86
r and K strategies......Page 87
Parental influences......Page 88
Attractiveness beyond sexual dimorphism......Page 89
Rating original images......Page 90
Procedures......Page 91
Men......Page 92
Facial preferences and timing of sexual maturation......Page 93
References......Page 94
Behavioural evidence......Page 98
Face recognition in sheep......Page 99
Face emotion recognition in sheep......Page 100
Face imagery......Page 101
Non-human primates......Page 102
Sheep......Page 104
Population encoding......Page 106
Comparisons with human face identity recognition......Page 107
Sheep......Page 108
Lateralization of face-emotion processing......Page 109
Neural activity during face imagery in sheep......Page 110
References......Page 111
Romantic love: a mammalian brain system for mate choice......Page 116
Mammalian courtship attraction......Page 117
Romantic love: functional magnetic resonance imaging research......Page 118
The sex drive......Page 119
The sex drive and mate preference: interactions......Page 120
Neuroimaging and animal studies of attachment......Page 121
Rejection in love......Page 123
The drive to love......Page 124
References......Page 125
Introduction......Page 130
Oxytocin and arginine vasopressin in social bond formation......Page 131
Oxytocin and arginine vasopressin in social recognition......Page 135
Oxytocin and arginine vasopressin in human social behaviour......Page 136
References......Page 138
Introduction......Page 142
Parental bonds in small-brained mammals......Page 143
Precocial mammals: maternal bonding......Page 144
Social and maternal bonding in primates......Page 146
A declining role for olfactory systems in social reward for parenting......Page 147
Frontal cortex enhanced role in social reward for parenting......Page 150
References......Page 152
Behavioural findings......Page 158
Social buffering on HPA axis......Page 159
Vocal cues......Page 161
Familiarity of the partner......Page 162
Oxytocin......Page 163
Opioids......Page 164
Clinical aspects......Page 165
References......Page 166
Kinship and evolution of imprinted genes......Page 172
Suckling......Page 173
Maternal behaviour......Page 174
Kin recognition......Page 175
The special case of the X-chromosome......Page 176
Concluding remarks......Page 177
References......Page 178
The Ferrier Lecture 1998 The molecular biology of consciousness investigated with genetically modified mice......Page 181
The neuronal nicotinic receptors: allosteric membrane proteins that modulate higher brain functions......Page 183
The integration of neuronal nicotinic receptors to the neuronal workspace architecture......Page 186
Nicotinic receptors and states of vigilance in the mouse......Page 187
Nicotinic receptors and the content of consciousness......Page 188
The joint recovery of exploratory behaviour and reward function by targeted re-expression of nAChR subunit......Page 191
States of vigilance: sleep and arousal, epilepsy, general anaesthesia......Page 192
Content of consciousness: behavioural flexibility and the rudiments of ‘intentionality’ in the mouse?......Page 193
Social relationships in the mouse?......Page 194
The neuronal workspace hypothesis, blindsight and the laboratory mouse?......Page 195
References......Page 196
Erratum......Page 202