Safina, Carl, 253
Sagan, Carl, 81
salience network, 375 n25
Sandy Hook Elementary School, ix, 83, 101
Sauter, Disa A., 49–50, 372 nn15–16
Scalia, Antonin, 238
Schachter, Stanley, 34, 370–71 n14
scientific revolutions, 172
Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT), xiv
self-control, and legal system, 245
self-medication, 217
semantic dementia, 46–47
sensations, experience of, 83
sensory input
body as source of, 29
concepts and, 85
explanation of, 59–60
filtering, 64
prediction of, 66 (see also interoception)
See also prediction error
Sesame Street, xi
Siegel, Erika, 70
similarities, 91, 92, 98, 114–16
Simmel, Mary-Ann, 272
Simmons, W. Kyle, 312
simulation, 26–30, 71, 315, 370 n3
control network, 317
interoceptive network, 317
Singer, Jerome, 34, 370–71 n14
SM, 17–18
small world architecture, 383 n20
smell, categorization by, 258, 401 n12
social appropriateness, 367 n12
social construction, 33
social influence, 139
social reality, 39, 190–91, 283, 286–87
animals and, 254
creating for children, 184
effects of, 153
examples of, 133–34
language and, 135–38
power of, 139
prerequisites for, 134–38
science and, 383 n7
self and, 190–93
transmitting behaviors, 145
as unique to humans, 262–63
violating rules of, 219–20 (see also legal system/law)
somatic nervous system, 306
Sotomayor, Sonia, 239
sound, experience of, 128–29, 130, 379–80 n21, 383 n1
Souter, David, 239
speech, 97–98. See also language; words
spotlight of attention, 114
stand your ground laws, 235–36
statistical learning, 94–97, 100
stress, 203–5, 241, 376 n34, 388 nn2–4, 388–89 n6, 389 n7, 392 n8
Striedter, Georg, 378 n61
Stumbling on Happiness (Gilbert), 315
Styron, William, 209
subcortical regions, 303
suffering vs. discomfort, 187
synchrony, 376 n34