A dissociation between social mentalizing and general reasoning

Overwalle, Frank Van

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.09.043

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“…Unlike adults, however, children showed no significant differential response to live versus recorded speech in DMPFC. This null finding is surprising given that DMPFC is consistently implicated as sensitive to social context across both interactive and 'offline' paradigms (reviewed in Van Overwalle, 2011).…”

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Perceived live interaction modulates the developing social brain

Rice

Moraczewski

Redcay³

2016

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Although children's social development is embedded in social interaction, most developmental neuroscience studies have examined responses to non-interactive social stimuli (e.g. photographs of faces). The neural mechanisms of real-world social behavior are of special interest during middle childhood (roughly ages 7-13), a time of increased social complexity and competence coinciding with structural and functional social brain development. Evidence from adult neuroscience studies suggests that social interaction may alter neural processing, but no neuroimaging studies in children have directly examined the effects of live social-interactive context on social cognition. In the current study of middle childhood, we compare the processing of two types of speech: speech that children believed was presented over a real-time audio-feed by a social partner and speech that they believed was recorded. Although in reality all speech was prerecorded, perceived live speech resulted in significantly greater neural activation in regions associated with social cognitive processing. These findings underscore the importance of using ecologically-valid and interactive methods to understand the developing social brain.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Perceived live interaction modulates the developing social brain

Rice

Moraczewski

Redcay³

2016

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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“…Decreasing LOAs were associated with the majority of the left hemisphere regions reliably associated with the How > Why contrast in previous work. These regions fall within a broader functional network responsive to cognitive tasks devoid of meaningful socioemotional content (Van Overwalle, 2011;Jack et al, 2012). But they are more frequently regarded as forming a subset of the functional network thought to enable representation of the visual and somatomotor features of actions when they are perceived, performed, conceptualized, and verbally processed (Caspers et al, 2010;Kemmerer et al, 2012;Molenberghs et al, 2012;Pulvermuller, 2013;Watson et al, 2013;Rizzolatti et al, 2014;Urgesi et al, 2014;Kemmerer, 2015).…”

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The neural basis of conceptualizing the same action at different levels of abstraction

Spunt

Kemmerer

Adolphs

2015

Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci

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People can conceptualize the same action (e.g. 'riding a bike') at different levels of abstraction (LOA), where higher LOAs specify the abstract motives that explain why the action is performed (e.g. 'getting exercise'), while lower LOAs specify the concrete steps that indicate how the action is performed (e.g. 'gripping handlebars'). Prior neuroimaging studies have shown that why and how questions about actions differentially activate two cortical networks associated with mental-state reasoning and action representation, respectively; however, it remains unknown whether this is due to the differential demands of the questions per se or to the shifts in LOA those questions produce. We conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging while participants judged pairs of action phrases that varied in LOA and that could be framed either as a why question (Why ride a bike? Get exercise.) or a how question (How to get exercise? Ride a bike.). Question framing (why vs how) had no effect on activity in regions of the two networks. Instead, these regions uniquely tracked parametric variation in LOA, both across and within trials. This suggests that the human capacity to understand actions at different LOA is based in the relative activity of two cortical networks.

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“…This network is involved in the understanding of other person's behavior as driven by internal mental states like thoughts, emotions and beliefs (Van Overwalle, 2009;Spreng et al, 2008). It encompasses various medial areas including the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), posterior cingulate cortex, and precuneus, as well as areas in the lateral temporal lobe, including the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ), posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS), and anterior temporal lobe (aTL).…”

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confidence: 99%