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Dissociable Medial Prefrontal Contributions to Judgments of Similar and Dissimilar Others
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Human social interaction requires the recognition that other people are governed by the same types of mental states-beliefs, desires, intentions-that guide one's own behavior. We used functional neuroimaging to examine how perceivers make mental state inferences when such self-other overlap can be assumed (when the other is similar to oneself) and when it cannot (when the other is dissimilar from oneself). We observed a double dissociation such that mentalizing about a similar other engaged a region of ventral mPFC linked to self-referential thought, whereas mentalizing about a dissimilar other engaged a more dorsal subregion of mPFC. The overlap between judgments of self and similar others suggests the plausibility of "simulation" accounts of social cognition, which posit that perceivers can use knowledge about themselves to infer the mental states of others.
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“Specifically, a dorsal aspect of the medial prefrontal cortex has been associated with mentalizing about people perceived to be dissimilar from oneself, whereas a more ventral aspect of medial prefrontal cortex (vMPFC) has been linked to mentalizing about those perceived to be similar.”
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“The observed dissociation between the functional neuroanatomy associated with mentalizing about similar and dissimilar others joins several other recent observations that likewise suggest that the cognitive processes deployed during mentalizing will vary as a function of exactly whose mental states one is attempting to infer (10, 11).”
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- Authors
- Mitchell, J. P., Macrae, C. N., & Banaji, M. R.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- University of Aberdeen (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Mitchell, Jason P.
- Venue
- Neuron
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-05
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 655-663
- ISSN
- 0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2103551585
- Cited by
- 1,023
- References
- 63
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 73.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/ (vor, 2634 d)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-017 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-037 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-012 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-029 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-004 (stm-asf)
- Locations
- Neuron (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Center for Research Resources (P41-RR-14075, P41RR014075)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Keywords
- medial prefrontal cortex, mentalization, theory of mind, self-other similarity, social cognition, simulation theory, self-referential processing, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, double dissociation, mental state inference
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain, Brain Mapping, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Judgment, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Social Behavior, Prefrontal Cortex
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