文档介绍：Editorial Brain (2002), 125, 1673±1675
The neurology of social cognition
Impairments of emotion and social behaviour are often during a social dinner; and (iii) an intentional violation of
observed after damage to the ventromedial (VM) region of social norms, . purposefully spitting food on a plate during
the prefrontal cortex [Brodmann areas (BA) 25, lower 24, 32, a social dinner. Each story was delivered in: (i) a personal
and medial aspect of 11, 12 and 10] (Fig. 1). Previously well- condition, where the events were described as they occurred
adapted individuals e unable to observe social con- to the subject; and (ii) an impersonal condition, where the
ventions and decide advantageously on personal matters. events were described as they occurred to another person.
Their ability to express emotion and to experience feelings in Presumably, there were no differences between the personal
appropriate social situations promised. Studies and impersonal conditions, so the data from the two
aimed at understanding the nature of these de®cits revealed conditions were collapsed. The difference in brain activity
that impaired `judgement and decision-making' is at the heart was between intentional and unintentional violations of social
of the problem (Bechara et al., 2002). Speci®cally, evidence norms on one hand versus normal social situations on the
suggests that the VM