A PET Investigation of the Attribution of Intentions with a Nonverbal Task

Brunet, Éric; Sarfati, Yves; Hardy-Baylé, Marie-Christine; Decety, Jean

doi:10.1006/nimg.1999.0525

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“…Like Calder et al's (2002), our meta-analysis demonstrates, with a wider sample of data, that this region in fact participates in a cognitive process shared by self and others. In other words, we demonstrate that the main brain regions recruited for others' mind representation are also and precisely the main brain regions reported in self studies and that this overlap extends beyond the brain areas usually pointed out, that is, it comprises the (text continues on page 258) Brunet et al (2000) TOM-Physical causality with character …”

Section: The Cerebral Correlates Of Others' Mind Readingsupporting

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What is self-specific? Theoretical investigation and critical review of neuroimaging results.

Legrand¹,

Ruby²

2009

Psychological Review

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The authors propose a paradigm shift in the investigation of the self. Synthesizing neuroimaging results from studies investigating the self, the authors first demonstrate that self-relatedness evaluation involves a wide cerebral network, labeled E-network, comprising the medial prefrontal cortex, precuneus, temporoparietal junction, and temporal poles. They further show that this E-network is also recruited during resting state, others' mind reading, memory recall, and reasoning. According to these data, (a) the profile of activation of the E-network demonstrates no preference for the self, and (b) the authors suggest that activity in this network can be explained by the involvement of cognitive processes common to all the tasks recruiting it: inferential processing and memory recall. On this basis, they conclude that standard ways to tackle the self by considering self-evaluation do not target the self in its specificity. Instead, they argue that self-specificity characterizes the subjective perspective, which is not intrinsically self-evaluative but rather relates any represented object to the representing subject. They further propose that such self-specific subject-object relation is anchored to the sensorimotor integration of efference with reafference (i.e., the motor command of the subject's action and its sensory consequence in the external world).

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Section: The Cerebral Correlates Of Others' Mind Readingsupporting

confidence: 68%

What is self-specific? Theoretical investigation and critical review of neuroimaging results.

Legrand¹,

Ruby²

2009

Psychological Review

405

428

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“…The middle temporal gyrus can inhibit the function of the amygdala, facilitate the extinction of fear conditioning [52,53] , and is linked to episodic memory as well as language processing [54] . Lower…”

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Altered regional homogeneity in post-traumatic stress disorder: a restingstate functional magnetic resonance imaging study

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Objective Little is known about the brain systems that contribute to vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Comparison of the resting-state patterns of intrinsic functional synchronization, as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), between groups with and without PTSD following a traumatic event can help identify the neural mechanisms of the disorder and targets for intervention. Methods Fifty-four PTSD patients and 72 matched traumatized subjects who experienced the 2008 Sichuan earthquake were imaged with blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) fMRI and analyzed using the measure of regional homogeneity (ReHo) during the resting state. Results PTSD patients presented enhanced ReHo in the left inferior parietal lobule and right superior frontal gyrus, and reduced ReHo in the right middle temporal gyrus and lingual gyrus, relative to traumatized individuals without PTSD. Conclusion Our findings showed that abnormal brain activity exists under resting conditions in PTSD patients who had been exposed to a major earthquake. Alterations in the local functional connectivity of cortical regions are likely to contribute to the neural mechanisms underlying PTSD.

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“…A number of neuroimaging studies have explored ToM in adults and implicated the mPFC as being important for ToM processing (Brunet, Sarfati, Hardy-Baylé, & Decety, 2000;Fletcher et al, 1995;Gallagher et al, 2000;Gallagher, Jack, Roepstorff, & Frith, 2002;Goel, Grafman, Sadato, & Hallett, 1995;Happé et al, 1996;Vogeley et al, 2001). There has been some evidence for modality-dependent ToM processing in laterality effects seen in ToM-related brain activity.…”

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“…Most ToM neuroimaging studies have used text-based ToM tasks and found left lateralized mPFC activity (Fletcher et al, 1995;Gallagher et al, 2000;Goel, Grafman, Sadato, & Hallett, 1995;Happé et al, 1996). A few studies have used pictorial or cartoon-based ToM tasks, claiming them to be nonverbal ToM tasks, and implicated the right mPFC (Brunet, Sarfati, Hardy-Baylé, & Decety, 2000;Gallagher et al, 2000). One study that used both storybased and cartoon-based ToM tasks found a convergent activity for the both story and cartoon tasks in the left mPFC (Gallagher et al, 2000).…”

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“…Previous studies of ToM that implicated the mPFC (Brunet, Sarfati, Hardy-Baylé, & Decety, 2000;Fletcher et al, 1995;Gallagher et al, 2000;Goel, Grafman, Sadato, & Hallett, 1995;Happé et al, 1996;Vogeley et al, 2001) and the TPJ (Gallagher et al, 2000;Saxe & Kanwisher, 2003;Saxe & Wexler, 2005) have used adult subjects only. To the best of our knowledge, no brain imaging study to date has examined both children and adults with both story-and cartoon-based ToM tasks.…”

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Children's and adults’ neural bases of verbal and nonverbal ‘theory of mind’

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Theory of mind (ToM) -our ability to predict behaviors of others in terms of their underlying intentions -has been examined through verbal and nonverbal false-belief (FB) tasks. Previous brain imaging studies of ToM in adults have implicated medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and temporoparietal junction (TPJ) for adults' ToM ability. To examine age and modality related differences and similarities in neural correlates of ToM, we tested 16 adults (18-40 years-old) and 12 children (8-12 years-old) with verbal (story) and nonverbal (cartoon) FB tasks, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Both age groups showed significant activity in the TPJ bilaterally and right inferior parietal lobule (IPL) in a modality-independent manner, indicating that these areas are important for ToM during both adulthood and childhood, regardless of modality. We also found significant agerelated differences in the ToM condition-specific activity for the story and cartoon tasks in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and left TPJ. These results suggest that depending on the modality adults may utilize different brain regions from children in understanding ToM.

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A PET Investigation of the Attribution of Intentions with a Nonverbal Task

Cited by 566 publications

References 29 publications

What is self-specific? Theoretical investigation and critical review of neuroimaging results.

What is self-specific? Theoretical investigation and critical review of neuroimaging results.

Altered regional homogeneity in post-traumatic stress disorder: a restingstate functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Children's and adults’ neural bases of verbal and nonverbal ‘theory of mind’

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