Journal
NEUROIMAGE
Volume 40, Issue 2, Pages 955-962Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.12.021
Keywords
fMRI; social cognition; dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; superior; temporal sulcus; mirror neuron
Funding
- NIDA NIH HHS [R03 DA021345, 1R03DA021345-01, R03 DA021345-01] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH060415, R01 MH060415-05, R01-MH60415] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [R01 NS051048, P01 NS041328, R01 NS051048-02, R01-NS051048, P01 NS041328-060001, 2-P01-NS41328] Funding Source: Medline
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Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated brain activity elicited by a computer-animated child's actions that appeared consistent and inconsistent with a computer-animated adult's instructions. Participants observed a computer-animated adult verbally instructing a computer-animated child to touch one of two objects. The child performed correctly in half of the trials and incorrectly in the other half. We observed significantly greater activity when the child performed incorrectly compared to correctly in regions of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) that have been implicated in maintaining our intentions in working memory and implementing cognitive control. However, no such effects were found in regions of the posterior superior temporal sulcus (posterior STS) that have been posited to interpret other people's behavior. These findings extend the role of the DLPFC in cognitive control to evaluating the social outcomes of other people's behavior and provide important new constraints for theories of how the posterior STS contributes to social cognition. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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