The term'social brain'refers to the network of brain regions that are involved in
understanding others. Behaviour that is related to social cognition changes dramatically
during human adolescence. This is paralleled by functional changes that occur in the social
brain during this time, in particular in the medial prefrontal cortex and the superior temporal
sulcus, which show altered activity during the performance of social cognitive tasks, such as
face recognition and mental-state attribution. Research also indicates that, in humans, these …