Sophisticated perspective-takers are distinctive: neural idiosyncrasy of functional connectivity in the mentalizing network
Yu Zhang,
No information about this author
Chao Ma,
No information about this author
Haiming Li
No information about this author
et al.
iScience,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
27(12), P. 111472 - 111472
Published: Nov. 23, 2024
Naive
perspective-takers
often
perceive
the
social
world
in
a
simplistic
and
uniform
way,
whereas
sophisticated
ones
recognize
diversity
complexity
of
others'
minds.
This
commonly
accepted
distinction
points
to
possibility
greater
inter-individual
variability
mentalizing
for
than
naive
perspective-takers,
difference
previously
overlooked
research.
In
current
study,
participants
were
asked
watch
mentalizing-related
movie
their
neural
responses,
interpretations
characters'
mental
states,
eye-gaze
trajectories
recorded.
The
results
provide
robust
converging
evidence
that
connectomic
features
within
network,
trajectories,
states
exhibit
among
compared
ones,
supporting
are
more
distinctive
while
similar.
These
findings
deepen
our
understanding
by
highlighting
idiosyncrasy
homogeneity
collaboration
behavioral
manifestations
across
varying
levels
perspective-taking
sophistication.
Language: Английский
Identifying A Neural Signature That Predicts Self-Focus
Danika Geisler,
No information about this author
Meghan L. Meyer
No information about this author
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Feb. 4, 2024
Abstract
People
are
remarkably
self-focused,
disproportionately
choosing
to
think
about
themselves
relative
other
topics.
Self-focus
can
be
adaptive,
helping
individuals
fulfill
their
needs.
It
also
go
haywire,
with
maladaptive
self-focus
a
risk
and
maintenance
factor
for
internalizing
disorders
like
depression.
Yet,
the
neural
mechanism
driving
people
focus
on
remains
unknown.
This
gap
is
due
timing:
while
prior
research
measures
activity
moment
participants
instructed
self-reflect,
brain
state
that
precedes,
or
nudges,
bias
spontaneously
self
undetermined.
We
identified
default
network
signature
from
pre-trial
predicts
1)
multiple
indicators
of
within
our
sample
2)
symptoms
in
separate
Human
Connectome
Project.
first
work
“decode”
paves
way
towards
stopping
its
course.
Language: Английский
Sophisticated Perspective-Takers are Distinctive: Neural Idiosyncrasy of Functional Connectivity in the Mentalizing Network
Yu Zhang,
No information about this author
Chao Ma,
No information about this author
Haiming Li
No information about this author
et al.
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Naive
perspective-takers
often
perceive
the
social
world
in
a
simplistic
and
uniform
way,
whereas
sophisticated
ones
recognize
diversity
complexity
of
others'
minds.
This
commonly
accepted
distinction
points
to
possibility
greater
inter-individual
variability
mentalizing
for
than
naive
perspective-takers,
difference
previously
overlooked
research.
In
this
study,
we
recorded
participants'
neural
responses
using
functional
Magnetic
Resonance
Imaging
(fMRI)
as
they
viewed
movie
eye-gaze
trajectories
separate
eye-movement
experiment.
The
results
provide
robust
converging
evidence
that
connectomic
features
network
exhibit
among
versus
suggesting
engage
distinctive
collaboration
patterns
within
network,
while
show
more
homogeneous
processing.
These
findings
deepen
our
understanding
by
highlighting
idiosyncrasy
homogeneity
across
varying
levels
perspective-taking
sophistication.
Language: Английский