Philipp Kanske
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Philipp Kanske is a Professor at Technische Universität Dresden in Germany. His research focuses on social and affective neuroscience, particularly in the areas of empathy, emotion processing, and the neurobiological underpinnings of prosocial behavior. Recent publications highlight his work on the relationship between trauma exposure and psychopathology, as well as the effects of socioeconomic status on charitable giving. Kanske's contributions to understanding empathic stress and social plasticity further underscore his expertise in the intersection of psychology and neuroscience.
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An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience
Social neuroscience has often been criticized for approaching the investigation of the neural processes that enable social interaction and cognition from a passive, detached, third-person perspective, without involving any real-time social interaction. With the emergence of second-person neuroscience, investigators have uncovered the unique complexity of neural-activation patterns in actual, real-time interaction. Social cognition that occurs during social interaction is fundamentally different from that unfolding during social observation. However, it remains unclear how the neural correlates of social interaction are to be interpreted. Here, we leverage the active-inference framework to shed light on the mechanisms at play during social interaction in second-person neuroscience studies. Specifically, we show how counterfactually rich mutual predictions, real-time bodily adaptation, and policy selection explain activation in components of the default mode, salience, and frontoparietal networks of the brain, as well as in the basal ganglia. We further argue that these processes constitute the crucial neural processes that underwrite bona fide social interaction. By placing the experimental approach of second-person neuroscience on the theoretical foundation of the active-inference framework, we inform the field of social neuroscience about the mechanisms of real-life interactions. We thereby contribute to the theoretical foundations of empirical second-person neuroscience.
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2023
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2022
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Emanuel Jauk
Technische Universität Dresden
Stefan Schulreich
Universität Wien
Veronika Engert
Professor of Social Neuroscience
Jena University Hospital
Sofie Louise Valk
Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
Lars Schwabe
Universität Hamburg
Konrad Lehmann
Technische Universität Dresden
Boris C. Bernhardt
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