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