Watching social interactions produces dorsomedial prefrontal and medial parietal BOLD fMRI signal increases compared to a resting baseline

Iacoboni, Marco; Lieberman, Matthew D; Knowlton, Barbara J; Molnar-Szakacs, Istvan; Moritz, Mark; Throop, C.Jason; Fiske, Alan Page

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.11.013

Watching social interactions produces dorsomedial prefrontal and medial parietal BOLD fMRI signal increases compared to a resting baseline

Some human brain areas are tonically active in a resting state when subjects are not engaged in any overt task. The activity of these areas decreases when subjects are engaged in a wide variety of laboratory tasks designed to study cognitive operations. It has been suggested that these areas, amo…