Distinct neural correlates of social categories and personality traits

Cruyssen, Laurens Van der; Heleven, Elien; Ma, Ning; Vandekerckhove, Marie; Overwalle, Frank Van

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.09.022

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“…The ROIs were spheres with a radius of 5 mm drawn around these centers. To explore to what extent the selection of the studies is critical for the present results, we conducted the same PPI analyses on the relevant target ROIs (a) for all trait studies excluding the autobiographical study (Van Hoeck et al, 2013), and (b) on all studies involving verbal behavioral descriptions of individuals, excluding group descriptions ( Van der Cruyssen et al, 2015) or visual input . The first trait-only analysis revealed marginal connectivity from the right TPJ to the right posterior cerebellar mean ROI (p = .107, FWE-corrected) but failed to show connectivity back to the left TPJ.…”

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“…The current connectivity analysis was conducted on five published fMRI studies from our lab Ma et al, 2012a,b;Van der Cruyssen et al, 2015;Van Hoeck et al, 2013). All studies involved human actions, either depicted visually (e.g., showing a person reading a book) or described verbally by short sentences (e.g., "gives his mother a slap") or by verbal cues triggering personal memories of the participants.…”

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“…The essentials of the design (primary contrast between the critical experimental versus control/contrast conditions), as well as the material and procedure of each study are summarized below (for details see Baetens et al, 2014;Ma et al, 2012a,b;Van der Cruyssen et al, 2015;Van Hoeck et al, 2013). The main results of each study are listed in Table 2.…”

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“…These studies were selected because they showed activity in the mentalizing network in both the cerebrum and cerebellum, and involved higher-level complex social inferences involving a person's traits, a person's past, and group stereotypes Ma et al, 2012aMa et al, , 2012bVan der Cruyssen et al, 2015;Van Hoeck et al, 2013). The selected studies also used the same experimental and scanning procedures and software program (SPM).…”

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“…Brain-lesion evidence also supports the involvement of the (ventro-) medial PFC in stereotypical beliefs (see Gozzi et al , 2009). Still, although activity in the dmPFC is certainly modulated by the stereotypicality of the information available about another agent (Van der Cruyssen et al , 2015), the dmPFC is also involved in social evaluation beyond stereotypical categorizing. Indeed, converging evidence points to an involvement of the mPFC in different aspects of social evaluation such as first impression formation, personality traits inference, and attribution of mental states (Baron et al , 2011; Contreras et al , 2012; Fouragnan et al , 2013; Ma et al , 2013a,b; Mitchell et al , 2005; Van den Stock et al , 2014; for a review, Van Overwalle, 2009).…”

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The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex mediates the interaction between moral and aesthetic valuation: a TMS study on thebeauty-is-goodstereotype

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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Attractive individuals are perceived as possessing more positive personal traits than unattractive individuals. This reliance on aesthetic features to infer moral character suggests a close link between aesthetic and moral valuation. Here we aimed to investigate the neural underpinnings of the interaction between aesthetic and moral valuation by combining transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with a priming paradigm designed to assess the Beauty-is-Good stereotype. Participants evaluated the trustworthiness of a series of faces (targets), each of which was preceded by an adjective describing desirable, undesirable, or neutral aesthetic qualities (primes). TMS was applied between prime and target to interfere with activity in two regions known to be involved in aesthetic and moral valuation: the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC, a core region in social cognition) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC, critical in decision making). Our results showed that when TMS was applied over vertex (control) and over the dlPFC, participants judged faces as more trustworthy when preceded by positive than by negative aesthetic primes (as also shown in two behavioral experiments). However, when TMS was applied over the dmPFC, primes had no effect on trustworthiness judgments. A second Experiment corroborated this finding. Our results suggest that mPFC plays a causal role linking moral and aesthetic valuation.

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Social cognition and the cerebellum: A meta‐analytic connectivity analysis

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This meta-analytic connectivity modeling (MACM) study explores the functional connectivity of the cerebellum with the cerebrum in social cognitive processes. In a recent meta-analysis, Van Overwalle, Baetens, Mariën, and Vandekerckhove (2014) documented that the cerebellum is implicated in social processes of "body" reading (mirroring; e.g., understanding other persons' intentions from observing their movements) and "mind" reading (mentalizing, e.g., inferring other persons' beliefs, intentions or personality traits, reconstructing persons' past, future, or hypothetical events). In a recent functional connectivity study, Buckner et al. (2011) offered a novel parcellation of cerebellar topography that substantially overlaps with the cerebellar meta-analytic findings of Van Overwalle et al. (2014). This overlap suggests that the involvement of the cerebellum in social reasoning depends on its functional connectivity with the cerebrum. To test this hypothesis, we explored the meta-analytic co-activations as indices of functional connectivity between the cerebellum and the cerebrum during social cognition. The MACM results confirm substantial and distinct connectivity with respect to the functions of (a) action understanding ("body" reading) and (b) mentalizing ("mind" reading). The consistent and strong connectivity findings of this analysis suggest that cerebellar activity during social judgments reflects distinct mirroring and mentalizing functionality, and that these cerebellar functions are connected with corresponding functional networks in the cerebrum.

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Distinct neural correlates of social categories and personality traits

Cited by 36 publications

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Functional connectivity between the cerebrum and cerebellum in social cognition: A multi-study analysis

Functional connectivity between the cerebrum and cerebellum in social cognition: A multi-study analysis

The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex mediates the interaction between moral and aesthetic valuation: a TMS study on thebeauty-is-goodstereotype

Social cognition and the cerebellum: A meta‐analytic connectivity analysis

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