Sociální mozek – Koukolík František (2016)

Since the first edition of The Social Brain was sent to print (Karolinum 2006), ten years have passed. The number of scientific papers dealing with social neuroscience published during this time in journals that can be considered the highest quality has increased remarkably. Many findings that are only a few years old are now inaccurate or outdated, particularly due to new technologies and the large number of subjects studied. Extensive sets of studies on the same topic allow for the creation of databases and the results to be meta-analyzed. The findings are more reliable, yet still in a state of ongoing development. Therefore, the current edition is fundamentally revised. Like the previous edition, it addresses the evolution of the social brain, empathy, mentalization, face recognition, language, and decision-making. It focuses more specifically on human groups and the pathology of the social brain through examples of diseases and disorders related to autism, dementia, depression, psychopathy, and schizophrenia. A new chapter is dedicated to large-scale neural networks – the connectomes of the social brain. Each chapter concludes with a brief summary, and the literature used is not and cannot be exhaustive. The concept of the current edition did not allow for a discussion of moral, religious, and aesthetic decision-making. The book is...