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AI & Social Cognition Neuroscience

AI & Social Cognition Neuroscience

Articles on how the brain represents social relationships, including fMRI studies of social cognition, neural mapping of alliances and rivalries, Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA) of interpersonal dynamics, and the neuroscience of social network understanding.

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Why Your Brain Remembers Enemies Better Than Friends — the Neuroscience of Social Rivalry Mapping

A University of Osaka fMRI study using SUITS episodes reveals that the brain encodes antagonistic relationships far more strongly than friendly ones, with rivalries anchored in the left anterior supramarginal gyrus and right medial prefrontal cortex — implications for AI social modeling.