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The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world
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The default mode network (DMN) is classically considered an ‘intrinsic’ system, specializing in internally oriented cognitive processes such as daydreaming, reminiscing and future planning. In this Perspective, we suggest that the DMN is an active and dynamic ‘sense-making’ network that integrates incoming extrinsic information with prior intrinsic information to form rich, context-dependent models of situations as they unfold over time. We review studies that relied on naturalistic stimuli, such as stories and movies, to demonstrate how an individual’s DMN neural responses are influenced both by external information accumulated as events unfold over time and by the individual’s idiosyncratic past memories and knowledge. The integration of extrinsic and intrinsic information over long timescales provides a space for negotiating a shared neural code, which is necessary for establishing shared meaning, shared communication tools, shared narratives and, above all, shared communities and social networks. The role of the default mode network (DMN) is unclear. In this Perspective, Yeshurun, Nguyen and Hasson review evidence that the DMN integrates extrinsic inputs with intrinsic information over long timescales, enabling it to represent meaning in a way that can be shared between individuals.
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“Therefore, the DMN should not be considered an intrinsic system active only during internally oriented or stimulus-independent processes.”
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“The DMN is sensitive to long-term memories.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Intrinsic responses of the DMN > The DMN is sensitive to long-term memories.
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“to demonstrate how an individual’s DMN neural responses are influenced both by external information accumulated as events unfold over time and by the individual’s idiosyncratic past memories and knowledge.”
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“The integration of extrinsic and intrinsic information over long timescales provides a space for negotiating a shared neural code, which is necessary for establishing shared meaning, shared communication tools, shared narratives and, above all, shared communities and social networks.”
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“Therefore, the DMN should not be considered an extrinsic system, sensitive only to incoming sensory information.”
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“Greater similarity in the interpretation of the ambiguous shape animation (as reported by each of the participants) was associated with greater similarity in neural response in DMN regions across participants.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Intrinsic responses of the DMN > The DMN is sensitive to individual differences in interpretation.
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- Not checked yetcites [37] Nguyen, M., Vanderwal, T. & Hasson, U. Shared understanding of narratives is correlated with shared neural responses. NeuroImage 184, 161–170 (2019). source
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“This analysis, although effective in outlining the anatomical boundaries of the DMN, is unable to distinguish subtle task-related fluctuations in connectivity across various experimental conditions including, for example, lying at rest in a scanner, listening to a list of scrambled words and listening to an intact story several minutes long24–26”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Extrinsic responses of the DMN > DMN connectivity is influenced by context and incoming inputs.
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- Not checked yetcites [24] Honey, C. J. et al. Predicting human resting-state functional connectivity from structural connectivity. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 106, 2035–2040 (2009). source
- Not checked yetcites [25] Greicius, M. D., Supekar, K., Menon, V. & Dougherty, R. F. Resting-state functional connectivity reflects structural connectivity in the default mode network. Cereb. Cortex 19, 72–78 (2009). source
- Not checked yetcites [26] Simony, E. et al. Dynamic reconfiguration of the default mode network during narrative comprehension. Nat. Commun. 7, 12141 (2016). source
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“Crucially, although attention can modulate responses in the DMN, it cannot, in isolation, account for the results described above.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Extrinsic responses of the DMN > Integration in the DMN is modulated by attention.
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- Not checked yetcites [46] Chen, J. et al. Shared memories reveal shared structure in neural activity across individuals. Nat. Neurosci. 20, 115–125 (2016). source
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“DMN responses are modulated by prior beliefs.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Intrinsic responses of the DMN > DMN responses are modulated by prior beliefs.
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- Not checked yetcites [47] Yeshurun, Y. et al. Same story, different story: the neural representation of interpretive frameworks. Psychological Sci. 28, 307–319 (2017). source
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“Evidence suggests that the DMN is also modulated by attention.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Extrinsic responses of the DMN > Integration in the DMN is modulated by attention.
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- Not checked yetcites [42] Schmälzle, R., Häcker, F. E. K., Honey, C. J. & Hasson, U. Engaged listeners: shared neural processing of powerful political speeches. Soc. Cognit. Affect. Neurosci. 10, 1137–1143 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [43] Cohen, S. S. & Parra, L. C. Memorable audiovisual narratives synchronize sensory and supramodal neural responses. eNeuro https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0203-16.2016 (2016). source
- Not checked yetcites [44] Ki, J. J., Kelly, S. P. & Parra, L. C. Attention strongly modulates reliability of neural responses to naturalistic narrative stimuli. J. Neurosci. 36, 3092–3101 (2016). source
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“Similar studies have reported that increased alignment in neural response across subjects in the DMN is correlated with the similarity in interpretation of spoken narratives69, similarity in emotional response over time during spoken narratives70, similarity in humour perception over time71, similarity in socio-sexual desire while watching erotic movies72 and similarity in moral decision-making73,”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Intrinsic responses of the DMN > The DMN is sensitive to individual differences in interpretation.
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- Partly supportedcites [69] Saalasti, S. et al. Inferior parietal lobule and early visual areas support elicitation of individualized meanings during narrative listening. Brain Behav. 9, e01288 (2019). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results report that subjects with more similar interpretations of a spoken narrative had more similar brain activity in the inferior parietal lobule and occipital pole. The paper does not identify this finding as alignment across the default mode network as a whole. The later examples in the citing sentence carry separate citations and are not attributed to this source. (LLM, conf=0.83)
- Partly supportedcites [70] Smirnov, D. et al. Emotions amplify speaker–listener neural alignment. Hum. Brain Mapp. 40, 4777–4788 (2019). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results (§3.3; page unavailable) link similarity in speakers’ and listeners’ emotional responses during narratives to increased neural synchronization, including in the ACC and precuneus. The paper reports effects in specific regions, however, rather than establishing increased alignment across the default mode network as a whole. The other activities in the citing sentence have separate citations and are not attributed to this paper. (LLM, conf=0.84)
- Partly supportedcites [71] Jääskeläinen, I. P. et al. Brain hemodynamic activity during viewing and re-viewing of comedy movies explained by experienced humor. Sci. Rep. 6, 27741 (2016). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Citation 71 supports the humour-perception part of the sentence: the Results report that similarity in self-rated humorousness explained inter-subject correlation of hemodynamic activity in several brain regions. The paper does not identify that finding as an effect across the default mode network. The other experiences in the sentence are attached to other citations, not this one. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“The finding that responses in the DMN are shaped by our long-term memories and beliefs raises the intriguing possibility that individual differences in the way we perceive the world can account for individual differences in DMN responses.”
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“However, at the same time, our knowledge, memories and beliefs are shaped by the people we are connected to and the world in which we are immersed (Fig. 1b).”
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“The ability to integrate information over days is necessary for building schemas, a mental codification of experience.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Intrinsic responses of the DMN > The DMN represents acquired schemas.
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“As the activity in the DMN is shaped by our unique history, it is by nature idiosyncratic.”
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“This result suggests that the responses in the DMN can be shaped by information accumulated across many minutes during uninterrupted viewing (short-term context) as well as by information gathered over days (as in the long-term context group) — and, conceivably, even years.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Intrinsic responses of the DMN > The DMN is sensitive to long-term memories.
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- Not checked yetcites [55] Chen, J. et al. Accessing real-life episodic information from minutes versus hours earlier modulates hippocampal and high-order cortical dynamics. Cereb. Cortex 26, 3428–3441 (2015). source
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“Inter-subject correlation in the DMN was greater among participants who had the background knowledge to interpret the clip than among participants who did not. Crucially, responses in the DMN were similar across the short-term context and the long-term context groups”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Intrinsic responses of the DMN > The DMN is sensitive to long-term memories.
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- Not checked yetcites [55] Chen, J. et al. Accessing real-life episodic information from minutes versus hours earlier modulates hippocampal and high-order cortical dynamics. Cereb. Cortex 26, 3428–3441 (2015). source
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“The DMN, which includes the posterior medial cortex, medial prefrontal cortex and temporoparietal junction1–3”
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- Not checked yetcites [1] Buckner, R. L. & DiNicola, L. M. The brain’s default network: updated anatomy, physiology and evolving insights. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 20, 593–608 (2019). source
- Not checked yetcites [2] Raichle, M. E. The brain’s default mode network. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 38, 433–447 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [3] Andrews-Hanna, J. R., Reidler, J. S., Sepulcre, J., Poulin, R. & Buckner, R. L. Functional-anatomic fractionation of the brain’s default network. Neuron 65, 550–562 (2010). source
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“Second, we argue that activity in the DMN is nonetheless sensitive to intrinsic information (long-term memories, conditional responses, beliefs, emotions and so on), which influences and interacts with the interpretation and processing of incoming external information (bottom arrow in Fig. 1a).”
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“within-brain functional connectivity patterns are heavily influenced by direct and indirect anatomical wiring, but are less sensitive for isolating spontaneous activity (for example, during rest) from stimulus-locked activity that propagates through the network as during processing of extrinsic information26,28.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Extrinsic responses of the DMN > DMN connectivity is influenced by context and incoming inputs.
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- Not checked yetcites [26] Simony, E. et al. Dynamic reconfiguration of the default mode network during narrative comprehension. Nat. Commun. 7, 12141 (2016). source
- Not checked yetcites [28] Nastase, S. A., Liu, Y.-F., Hillman, H., Norman, K. A. & Hasson, U. Leveraging shared connectivity to aggregate heterogeneous datasets into a common response space. NeuroImage 15, 116865 (2020). source
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“we argue that the DMN provides a space for social ‘others’ (the extrinsic people we interact with) to shape the self (our set of intrinsic memories and beliefs), which in turn can enable us to shape the memories and beliefs of others.”
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“DMN responses are locked to the content of the stimuli over long timescales. At the same time, they are relatively invariant to even dramatic changes in low-level stimulus properties that do not change the interpretation (meaning) of the stimuli.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Extrinsic responses of the DMN > Integration in the DMN depends on the content, not form, of external input.
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“Making sense of the world is a dynamic, ever-changing process requiring the integration of incoming information with prior knowledge about the situation over multiple timescales.”
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“Here, we propose that the shared representation in the DMN arises from dynamical social interaction between the self and others.”
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“A later study using fNIRS identified conversational ‘leaders’ that emerge naturally in group discussions and used Granger causality analysis to show that the leader’s neural activity more strongly predicted the followers’ neural activity than vice versa101.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > The DMN in social interaction > One-way versus two-way communication.
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- Not checked yetcites [101] Jiang, J. et al. Leader emergence through interpersonal neural synchronization. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 112, 4274–4279 (2015). source
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“this approach showed that face-to-face communication elicits greater brain–brain coupling than does back-to-back communication100, suggesting a role of non-verbal signals in enhancing communication and neural alignment.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > The DMN in social interaction > One-way versus two-way communication.
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- Not checked yetcites [100] Jiang, J. et al. Neural synchronization during face-to-face communication. J. Neurosci. 32, 16064–16069 (2012). source
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“Together, these findings suggest that that caregiver–child DMN coupling emerges early in development and likely plays a role in learning and language acquisition.”
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“By contrast, in language areas and the DMN, the responses in the listeners’ brains lagged behind the responses in the speaker’s brain, suggesting that responses in the speaker’s brain causally shaped the responses in the listeners’ brains.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > The DMN in social interaction > Brain–brain coupling between speakers and listeners.
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- Not checked yetcites [86] Stephens, G. J., Silbert, L. J. & Hasson, U. Speaker–listener neural coupling underlies successful communication. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 107, 14425–14430 (2010). source
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“Group-level differences in neural responses between cultures have also been observed during processing of culturally relevant stimuli, such as stories describing protected collectivist values, that may be related to the degree of identification with the culture120,121.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > The DMN in social interaction > Social networks shape shared understanding.
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- Not checked yetcites [120] Kaplan, J. T. et al. Processing narratives concerning protected values: a cross-cultural investigation of neural correlates. Cereb. Cortex 27, 1428–1438 (2017).
- Not checked yetcites [121] Levy, J. et al. Adolescents growing up amidst intractable conflict attenuate brain response to pain of outgroup. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 113, 13696–13701 (2016). source
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“In this Perspective, we argue that we are able to shape and be shaped by others in part because activity in the DMN is capable of both shaping other brains’ responses and being shaped by the actions of other brains during social interaction.”
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“Perhaps one of the most intriguing findings across these studies is the discovery of neural patterns in the DMN that are shared across participants and aligned to the abstract structure and interpretation of the external events.”
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“Rather, we suggest that the DMN is ‘default’ because it is central for integrating external and internal information, allowing for shared communication and alignment tools, shared meanings, shared narratives and, above all, shared communities and social networks.”
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“Sharing stories and building collaborations further enhance such coupling.”
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“Developing shared ways to understand and act in the world is an evolving communal effort in which we synthesize our intrinsic idiosyncratic perspectives and actions with the extrinsic perspectives and actions of others.”
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“In this Perspective, we argue that the DMN is ‘default’ not because it is engaged when we are looking inward, nor because it is shaped by others.”
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Naturalistic stimuli such as stories and movies engage the same default mode network processes that operate during real-world social interaction.
“These findings also highlight the importance of studying the brain’s dynamics under temporally extended, ecological conditions29.”
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Sensory areas produce shared neural activity because they tend to align with low-level perceptual features of external stimuli.
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A given situation can be conveyed through speech, writing or abstract animated shapes.
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In formal education, new and sometimes technical information has to pass from an expert's brain to novices' brains.
“In such contexts, novel, sometimes jargonized, information must be transmitted from an expert’s brain to novices’ brains.”
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A central feature of formal teaching and learning is the growth of shared understanding of concepts.
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“The journey of Anonymized-MOOC-Platform-CL members through stimulating disruptions, resolving conflicts, and creating new operational models indeed reflects the core of Engeström's Activity Theory and even the novel discovery of neuro-alignment among team members through social interaction (Yeshurun et al., 2021).”
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“An innovative research direction using naturalistic stimuli has demonstrated that ongoing DMN activity of two individuals becomes synchronized when they process shared narratives, with DMN synchronization being particularly sensitive to social communicative cues. 47”
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“In summary, the DMN consistently responds to various aspects of social content and context, encompassing the consideration of mental states, making inferences about others' mental states, and establishing shared meaning and narratives about the self in the world. 47”
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“Rather, humans operate an online mechanism for accumulating information and integrating it into a broader contextual memory, which is changed and updated as the story unfolds17,18.”
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§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > The DMN in social interaction > The emergence of shared understanding.
“between caregivers and infants as young as 9–10 months old1–3.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Yeshurun, Y., Nguyen, M., & Hasson, U.
- Affiliations
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Yeshurun, Yaara
- Hasson, Uri
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- Published
- 2021-01-22
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 181-192
- ISSN
- 1471-003X (ISSN-L)
- 1471-0048
- PMC
- PMC7959111
- OpenAlex
- W3124266865
- Semantic Scholar
- 8e557932685d74b99d485eb4e7caccac4dc1394a
- Cited by
- 682
- References
- 156
- Citations by year
- 2026: 94 · 2025: 141 · 2024: 148 · 2023: 125 · 2022: 127 · 2021: 44
- FWCI
- 16.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Nature reviews. Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH112566)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (DP1HD091948)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Mind wandering and attention
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Keywords
- default mode network, extrinsic information, sensemaking, shared meaning, social cognition, memory integration, narrative comprehension, naturalistic stimuli, social networks
- MeSH terms
- Default Mode Network, Animals, Cognition, Communication, Ego, Humans, Nerve Net, Nervous System Physiological Phenomena, Neural Pathways
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