Early functional neuroimaging studies of behavioral domains again focused on cognitive processes such as language, attention and memory, yet some findings relevant to social cognition did emerge. For example, mood induction effects were seen in a cortico-limbic system that correlated with subjective ratings (Schneider et al., 1994, 1995) and was triggered by the experience of confronting unsolvable anagrams (Schneider et al., 1996). The introduction of functional MRI vastly accelerated mapping of social and emotional constructs into brain systems by introducing a safe procedure that yielded measures of regional brain activation. An outline of the main components of the social brain became clearer, implicating amygdala, orbitofrontal and ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex as its main hubs (Davidson et al., 2000).
