2024
DOI: 10.1038/s44271-024-00088-3
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Loneliness corresponds with neural representations and language use that deviate from shared cultural perceptions

Timothy W. Broom,
Siddhant Iyer,
Andrea L. Courtney
et al.

Abstract: The word zeitgeist refers to common perceptions shared in a given culture. Meanwhile, a defining feature of loneliness is feeling that one’s views are not shared with others. Does loneliness correspond with deviating from the zeitgeist? Across two independent brain imaging datasets, lonely participants’ neural representations of well-known celebrities strayed from group-consensus neural representations in the medial prefrontal cortex—a region that encodes and retrieves social knowledge (Studies 1 A/1B: N = 40 … Show more

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