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.
The AI Impact on Human Psychology Starts in a 500-Million-Year-Old Fish Brain
A new Nature study on transparent glassfish reveals an ancient midbrain circuit that detects social escape and disappearance — reframing how we think about AI's role in understanding human social cognition.
Oxytocin's Hidden Hand: Beyond the "Love Hormone" Myth
Research summary on how oxytocin influences social behavior, social fear, and emotional responses in the brain, with implications for treating social anxiety, autism, and depression — based on Professor Inga Neumann's Brain Medicine interview.
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.