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Animate, inanimate, and social: How the brain categorizes information

January 27, 2014 by

For our brain, animate and inanimate objects belong to different categories and any information about them is stored and processed by different networks. A study shows that there is also another category that is functionally distinct from the others, namely, the category of “social” groups.

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