What is social cognition?

Social cognition encompasses the cognitive and emotional processes through which we interpret, analyze, remember, and utilize information about the social world, including our thoughts about ourselves, others, and social relationships.

How can social cognition be improved?

Engaging in activities that involve identifying emotions, understanding social cues, and practicing perspective-taking can enhance social cognitive skills.

What resources does NeuronUP offer for social cognition rehabilitation?

NeuronUP provides various activities designed to train social cognition, such as exercises that involve determining appropriate reactions in social situations and identifying emotions from images.

Social cognition

Q: Why is social cognition important?

Social cognition enables us to interpret others' emotions, understand their perspectives, and predict their reactions, facilitating effective social interactions and relationships.

This means that social cognition refers to our thoughts about the social relationships we have throughout our life. As we build social relationships, we store information in our brain about these experiences. The interpretation of such information will determine our social behavior in the future.

Why is social cognition important?

Thanks to social cognition we are capable of interpreting other people’s emotions, of thinking about the cause of their joy or sadness, of placing ourselves in their shoes in a certain situation in order to know what are they thinking or how will they react if we do or say something specific.

NeuronUP activities for the rehabilitation of social cognition

At NeuronUP, the following two activities are very useful for training social cognition. The first activity (see left image) involves determining which reaction is the correct one for the given situation. The second activity (see right image) involves identifying the emotions shown in the images.