The origin and emergence of social ... network; the last was a homogenous network in which all bets were off—anyone could be partners with anyone else. Participants knew nothing about the ...

New research finds that the brain's response to social exclusion differs depending on the structure of a person's social network. Those with tight-knit social circles show less dynamic brain ...

To uncover how the brain encodes social network structure, Peer et al. used Facebook data to map out participants’ social connections. Then the researchers measured their brain activity with ...

The social network structure of animal populations has major implications for survival, reproductive success, sexual selection and pathogen transmission of individuals. But as of yet, no general ...

Networks are used to represent the structure of complex systems, including the Internet or social networks, but often these descriptions are biased or incomplete. Now, researchers at the Santa Fe ...

This power structure was based on social networks rather than on permanently established institutions. Society was organized into small and medium-sized chiefdoms that were typically involved in ...

In the late eighteenth century, both revolutionary movements were inspired by the same ideas shared widely through a combination of publications, social ... and-spoke network structure is ...

As science continues to unlock the complexities of the brain, a group of researchers has found evidence that brain networks and social networks actually influence and inform one another.