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Neurosciences
Grace Handley, Jennifer T. Kubota, Jasmin Cloutier
Summary: Recent research suggests that interracial contact influences the recruitment of brain regions involved in mentalizing during impression formation. This study investigated how perceived racial group and contact with that group shape mental state inferences in white perceivers. The results showed that interracial contact decreases racial biases in the recruitment of regions involved in mentalizing when inferring mental states from perceptual cues.
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Neurosciences
Tzipporah P. Dang, Bradley D. Mattan, Denise M. Barth, Grace Handley, Jasmin Cloutier, Jennifer T. Kubota
Summary: Recordings of interracial police officer-civilian interactions are now widely available and individuals may be more inclined to understand these dynamics when perceiving injustice towards communities that experience disproportionate policing. Two studies were conducted to explore this issue. The fMRI study found that White participants showed greater neural activity in regions supporting social cognition when viewing videos of Black civilians involved in more aggressive police encounters. Additionally, participants in the fMRI study rated officers as more aggressive and their use of force as less legitimate when the civilian was Black. In study 2, participants who had not viewed the videos also reported a belief that police are generally more unjustly aggressive towards Black civilians compared to White civilians. These findings shed light on how perceptions of conflict and injustice influence social cognitive engagement when observing arrests by White police officers of Black and White individuals.
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Neurosciences
Jon Walbrin, Jorge Almeida, Kami Koldewyn
Summary: This study used fMRI to investigate the neural basis of recognizing and understanding others' social interactions using biological motion. The results showed that adults rely more on body and dynamic social interaction processing, while children rely more on mental state inferences.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Chun -Ting Hsu, Wataru Sato, Takanori Kochiyama, Ryusuke Nakai, Kohei Asano, Nobuhito Abe, Sakiko Yoshikawa
Summary: Research shows that real-time face-to-face facial expressions play a positive role in emotional contagion and facial muscular responses in daily interactions, while also altering the activity and connectivity of brain regions involved in processing dynamic facial expressions.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Magdalena Knopp, Juliane Burghardt, Bernhard Meyer, Friedrich Riffer, Manuel Sprung
Summary: This study explores the influence of individual and situational effects on the measurement of Theory of Mind (ToM) abilities in two clinical samples. The findings suggest that performance on cognitive ToM tasks decreases over time, while performance on affective ToM tasks increases. This difference is more pronounced among older individuals. The results provide insights into the factors that moderate ToM performance in different clinical or age groups.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Justyna O. Ekert, Andrea Gajardo-Vidal, Diego L. Lorca-Puls, Thomas M. H. Hope, Fred Dick, Jennifer T. Crinion, David W. Green, Cathy J. Price
Summary: Previous studies have shown that the left posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) and left temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) both contribute to phonological short-term memory, speech perception and speech production. The study further dissociated the response profiles of these regions and highlighted their distinct roles in speech processing.
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Neurosciences
Xiaoxue Fu, Andy Hung, Aryanne D. de Silva, Tyler Busch, Whitney Mattson, Kristen R. Hoskinson, Hudson Gerry Taylor, Eric E. Nelson
Summary: Adolescents born preterm are at a higher risk for deficits in social cognition and peer relationships. Theory of Mind and the mentalizing network continue to develop across adolescence. The study found group differences and group-by-age interaction effects in the gray matter indices within the temporal lobe regions of the mentalizing network, as well as significantly worse performance on the ToM task for the extremely preterm group compared to the full-term group.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Frank Van Overwalle, Chris Baeken, Salvatore Campanella, Cleo L. Crunelle, Elien Heleven, Charles Kornreich, Maria Leggio, Xavier Noel, Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt, Kris Baetens
Summary: Recent research emphasizes the crucial role of the cerebellum, particularly the posterior cerebellum, in building internal action models to predict others' actions and adapt to social interactions. Dysfunctions in the posterior cerebellum may lead to social difficulties, with potential solutions including increasing plasticity through noninvasive neurostimulation or training programs.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Antonella Tramacere
Summary: This article investigates the effect of mirror gazing on self-perception and argues that our feelings towards others can influence our responses to our own mirror image, thus creating a vicious cycle.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Meijia Li, Min Pu, Kris Baetens, Chris Baeken, Natacha Deroost, Elien Heleven, Frank Van Overwalle
Summary: The posterior cerebellum plays a role in dynamic social cognition by building representations and predictions about sequences in social interactions. This study examined violations of social expectations during human interaction and found that they activate the posterior cerebellum and other cortical mentalizing regions. In contrast, violations of non-social expectations recruited different brain regions including cerebellar lobules IV-V, the action observation network, and the parahippocampal gyrus.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
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Psychiatry
Florian Bitsch, Philipp Berger, Arne Nagels, Irina Falkenberg, Benjamin Straube
Summary: The study examined dysfunctions of the mentalizing network in patients with schizophrenia compared to healthy controls, finding a sparser network structure in patients with schizophrenia and lower integration frequency between certain brain regions. The results suggest a specific integration deficit within the mentalizing network in patients with schizophrenia and provide a potential treatment target.
SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Psychology
Matthias Schurz, Joaquim Radua, Matthias G. Tholen, Lara Maliske, Daniel S. Margulies, Rogier B. Mars, Jerome Sallet, Philipp Kanske
Summary: This study integrates evidence of brain activation, brain organization, and behavior into a coherent model of social-cognitive processes, finding a multilevel model for understanding others' mental states from neuroimaging data. The model involves cognitive, affective, and combined functions, ultimately explained by an underlying principal gradient.
PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN
(2021)
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Psychology, Mathematical
Christina Breil, Philipp Kanske, Roxana Pittig, Anne Bockler
Summary: EmpaToM is a validated social video task designed for independent manipulation and assessment of empathy and Theory of Mind. Studies have shown that empathy and Theory of Mind are dissociable constructs in adults. A new version, EmpaToM-Y, has been specifically designed for measuring these capacities in youths.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2021)
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Psychology, Clinical
Elisa Corsi, Valentina Cardi, Sophie Sowden, Michel-Pierre Coll, Giammarco Cascino, Valdo Ricca, Janet Treasure, Geoffrey Bird, Alessio Maria Monteleone
Summary: Women with eating disorders have difficulties in mentalizing and imitating observed actions, but show no significant differences in empathy compared to healthy women. These findings suggest that intervention targeting specific areas of social cognition may help improve patients' social skills.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS
(2021)
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Psychiatry
Sohee Park
Summary: The author elaborates on three research programs that she has pursued to understand the causes of schizophrenia: working memory and behavior guidance, disrupted social cognition, and bodily-self disturbances.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Archana Venkataraman, Daniel Y-J. Yang, Nicha Dvornek, Lawrence H. Staib, James S. Duncan, Kevin A. Pelphrey, Pamela Ventola
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Genetics & Heredity
Daniel Y. -J. Yang, Danielle Beam, Kevin A. Pelphrey, Sebiha Abdullahi, Roger J. Jou
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Neurosciences
Allison Jack, Cara M. Keifer, Kevin A. Pelphrey
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2017)
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Psychology, Developmental
Hyunsik Kim, Cara M. Keifer, Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, Nicholas R. Eaton, Matthew D. Lerner, Kenneth D. Gadow
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(2018)
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Clinical Neurology
Y. J. Daniel Yang, Denis G. Sukhodolsky, Jiedi Lei, Eran Dayan, Kevin A. Pelphrey, Pamela Ventola
JOURNAL OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
(2017)
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Behavioral Sciences
Y. J. Daniel Yang, Tandra Allen, Sebiha M. Abdullahi, Kevin A. Pelphrey, Fred R. Volkmar, Sandra B. Chapman
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Psychology, Developmental
Hyunsik Kim, Cara Keifer, Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, Nicholas Eaton, Matthew Lerner, Kenneth Gadow
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
(2019)
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Psychology, Biological
Erin Kang, Tessa Clarkson, Cara M. Keifer, Tamara E. Rosen, Matthew D. Lerner
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2019)
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Psychiatry
Kathryn M. Hauschild, Peter Felsman, Cara M. Keifer, Matthew D. Lerner
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2020)
Review
Psychiatry
Cara M. Keifer, Talena C. Day, Kathryn M. Hauschild, Matthew D. Lerner
Summary: Research findings suggest that differences in reward anticipation vary across development and by important demographic characteristics, and potential confounds related to the tangibility and salience of social and nonsocial experimental stimuli should be considered in studies comparing social and nonsocial reward anticipation. Future research should carefully match social and nonsocial reward stimuli and consider employing a longitudinal design to explore the complex processes contributing to reward anticipation.
CURRENT PSYCHIATRY REPORTS
(2021)
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Psychology, Developmental
Cara M. Keifer, Amori Yee Mikami, James P. Morris, Erin J. Libsack, Matthew D. Lerner
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Psychology, Developmental
Cara M. Keifer, Kathryn M. Hauschild, Brady D. Nelson, Greg Hajcak, Matthew D. Lerner
JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
(2019)
Letter
Neurosciences
Erin Kang, James C. McPartland, Cara M. Keifer, Jennifer H. Foss-Feig, Emily J. Levy, Matthew D. Lerner
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY-COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING
(2019)
Article
Neurosciences
Erin Kang, Cara M. Keifer, Emily J. Levy, Jennifer H. Foss-Feig, James C. McPartland, Matthew D. Lerner
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY-COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING
(2018)
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Psychology, Clinical
Y. J. Daniel Yang, Tandra Allen, Sebiha M. Abdullahi, Kevin A. Pelphrey, Fred R. Volkmar, Sandra B. Chapman
BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY
(2017)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Edna C. Cieslik, Markus Ullsperger, Martin Gell, Simon B. Eickhoff, Robert Langner
Summary: Previous studies on error processing have primarily focused on the posterior medial frontal cortex, but the role of other brain regions has been underestimated. This study used activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses to explore brain activity related to committing errors and responding successfully in interference tasks. It was found that the salience network and the temporoparietal junction were commonly involved in both correct and incorrect responses, indicating their general involvement in coping with situations that require increased cognitive control. Error-specific convergence was observed in the dorsal posterior cingulate cortex, posterior thalamus, and left superior frontal gyrus, while successful responding showed stronger convergence in the dorsal attention network and lateral prefrontal regions. Underrecruitment of these regions in error trials may reflect failures in activating the appropriate stimulus-response contingencies necessary for successful response execution.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2024)