How Social Neuroscience Is Uncovering the Biology of Human Interactions
It turns out that your social network doesn’t just affect how you think — it literally rewires your brain in ways you can’t even imagine. Yet another reason to pick your friends wisely!
Not long ago, scientists thought that social factors were relatively unimportant to the basic structure and function of the brain and biology because of their relatively recent emergence in species. The social brain hypothesis, however, posits that the social complexities of primate species contributed to the rapid increase in neocortical connectivity and intelligence.