Although these proposals have great merits, they have been derived from narrowing down social cognition to specific tasks such as understanding beliefs and understanding goal-directed actions. Depending on one’s interests, the seat of social cognition is either in the medial prefrontal cortex (Amodio and Frith 2006), the temporoparietal junction (Saxe and Wexler 2005), or in the inferior frontal gyrus and the inferior parietal lobule (Gallese et al. At the same time, various proposals have been made about the core region/s underlying social cognition. These aspects range from the study of perception of emotional expressions to the study of representation of others’ mental states and actions.
The two major reasons for this proliferation are methodological advances in functional neuroimaging research and the introduction of multiple experimental paradigms tapping diverse aspects of social cognition. Since then, the number of regions implicated in social cognition has rapidly proliferated (Adolphs 2009 Lieberman 2010 Todorov et al. In one of the first attempts to formulate a model of the social brain, Brothers ( 1990) considered a few regions primarily focusing on the amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, and the superior temporal sulcus.
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