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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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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“a relatively small change to the stimulus can produce increasingly large differences in neural responses across the timescale hierarchy when it changes the interpretation of the stimulus.”
§ 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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- Not checked yetcites [35] Yeshurun, Y., Nguyen, M. & Hasson, U. Amplification of local changes along the timescale processing hierarchy. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 114, 9475–9480 (2017). source
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“Moreover, the DMN was found to be involved in updating schemas when events violated expectations or were inconsistent with the established schema65,66”
§ 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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- Not checked yetcites [65] Brandman, T., Malach, R. & Simony, E. The surprising role of the default mode network. Preprint at bioRxiv http://biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/10.1101/2020.05.18.101758 (2020). source
- Not checked yetcites [66] Dohmatob, E., Dumas, G. & Bzdok, D. Dark control: the default mode network as a reinforcement learning agent. Hum. Brain Mapp. 41, 3318–3341 (2020). source
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“First, we propose that activity in the DMN is modulated by incoming external information (top arrow in Fig. 1a), which is integrated over many seconds to many minutes (horizontal arrow in Fig. 1a).”
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“TRWs are short in sensory areas and become gradually longer towards higher-order areas.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Extrinsic responses of the DMN > DMN activity is influenced by context and incoming inputs.
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- Not checked yetcites [20] Hasson, U., Yang, E., Vallines, I., Heeger, D. J. & Rubin, N. A hierarchy of temporal receptive windows in human cortex. J. Neurosci. 28, 2539–2550 (2008). source
- Not checked yetcites [21] Lerner, Y., Honey, C. J., Silbert, L. J. & Hasson, U. Topographic mapping of a hierarchy of temporal receptive windows using a narrated story. J. Neurosci. 31, 2906–2915 (2011). source
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“We next review research demonstrating how the activity in the DMN is affected not only by external events unfolding over many minutes but also by an individual’s long-term memories, schemas and belief systems acquired over the years (Fig. 1a).”
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“This unique interplay between the extrinsic and intrinsic forces provides a mechanism for negotiating a shared neural code to facilitate learning and communication via shared common ground.”
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“Studies using naturalistic stimuli have identified a topographical hierarchy of processing timescales extending from early sensory cortex to higher-order areas including the DMN7,20–23.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Extrinsic responses of the DMN > DMN activity is influenced by context and incoming inputs.
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- Not checked yetcites [7] Konishi, M., McLaren, D. G., Engen, H. & Smallwood, J. Shaped by the past: the default mode network supports cognition that is independent of immediate perceptual input. PLoS ONE 10, e0132209 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [20] Hasson, U., Yang, E., Vallines, I., Heeger, D. J. & Rubin, N. A hierarchy of temporal receptive windows in human cortex. J. Neurosci. 28, 2539–2550 (2008). source
- Not checked yetcites [21] Lerner, Y., Honey, C. J., Silbert, L. J. & Hasson, U. Topographic mapping of a hierarchy of temporal receptive windows using a narrated story. J. Neurosci. 31, 2906–2915 (2011). source
- Not checked yetcites [22] Hubel, D. H. Eye, Brain, and Vision (Scientific American Library, 1988).
- Not checked yetcites [23] Ames, D. L., Honey, C. J., Chow, M. A., Todorov, A. & Hasson, U. Contextual alignment of cognitive and neural dynamics. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 27, 655–664 (2014). source
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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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“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.”
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“we suggest that the DMN is an active and dynamic sense-making network that integrates incoming extrinsic social information with prior intrinsic information to form rich, context-dependent models of the situation as they unfold over time.”
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“At the apex of the processing hierarchy, the neural response of the DMN to each sentence is influenced by prior information accumulated over many minutes15,20,21,23.”
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- Not checked yetcites [15] Hasson, U., Chen, J. & Honey, C. J. Hierarchical process memory: memory as an integral component of information processing. Trends Cogn. Sci. 19, 304–313 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [20] Hasson, U., Yang, E., Vallines, I., Heeger, D. J. & Rubin, N. A hierarchy of temporal receptive windows in human cortex. J. Neurosci. 28, 2539–2550 (2008). source
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“Neuroimaging studies suggest that instantiation and reinstatement of schemas are mediated by the interaction among regions within the DMN — namely, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, precuneus, bilateral temporoparietal junction and hippocampus63.”
§ 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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- Not checked yetcites [63] Gilboa, A. & Marlatte, H. Neurobiology of schemas and schema-mediated memory. Trends Cogn. Sci. 21, 618–631 (2017). source
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“DMN regions showed stronger alignment of neural responses within a group that shared an interpretation than between groups with differing interpretations.”
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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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“Thus, DMN representations must differ between people who perceive and act differently in a given situation.”
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“Classification analysis showed that similarities in the DMN responses between the movie viewers, the speaker and the listeners were scene-specific and invariant to low-level sensory features (such as differences between the audiovisual movie and its spoken description), suggesting that these shared responses reflected the transmission of information.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > The DMN in social interaction > The communication cycle.
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- Not checked yetcites [33] Zadbood, A., Chen, J., Leong, Y. C., Norman, K. A. & Hasson, U. How we transmit memories to other brains: constructing shared neural representations via communication. Cereb. Cortex 27, 4988–5000 (2017). source
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“At the same time, our actions, memories and stories shape and influence the thoughts, feelings and actions of the people to whom we are connected.”
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“Other work has focused on groups of individuals completing complex, real-life tasks that require substantial goal-directed coordination among group members102–106, finding increased neural alignment — both spatial and temporal — during periods of the task that required heightened coordination and communication.”
§ 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 [102] Astolfi, L. et al. Imaging the social brain by simultaneous hyperscanning during subject interaction. IEEE Intell. Syst. 26, 38–45 (2011). source
- Not checked yetcites [103] Stevens, R. H. & Galloway, T. L. Modeling the neurodynamic organizations and interactions of teams. Soc. Neurosci. 11, 123–139 (2016). source
- Not checked yetcites [104] Dodel, S. et al. in Foundations of Augmented Cognition. Directing the Future of Adaptive Systems (eds Schmorrow, D. D. & Fidopiastis, C. M.) 288–297 (Springer, 2011).
- Not checked yetcites [105] Fishburn, F. A. et al. Putting our heads together: interpersonal neural synchronization as a biological mechanism for shared intentionality. Soc. Cogn. Affect. Neurosci. 13, 841–849 (2018). source
- Not checked yetcites [106] Yang, J., Zhang, H., Ni, J., De Dreu, C. K. W. & Ma, Y. Within-group synchronization in the prefrontal cortex associates with intergroup conflict. Nat. Neurosci. 23, 754–760 (2020). source
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“This tight alignment between the speaker and their audience may reveal the mechanism by which we share our idiosyncratic perspectives and memories with other brains who never directly experienced them.”
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“Throughout the day, DMN neural responses are shaped by the actions and gestures of other social agents.”
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“Another electroencephalography study tested neural alignment between romantic dyads and unacquainted dyads, and found elevated coupling in the DMN during mutual gaze and smiling107.”
§ 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 [107] Kinreich, S., Djalovski, A., Kraus, L., Louzoun, Y. & Feldman, R. Brain-to-brain synchrony during naturalistic social interactions. Sci. Rep. 7, 17060 (2017). source
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“The evidence reviewed in this Perspective suggests that activity in the DMN is neither solely intrinsic nor solely extrinsic.”
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“A striking recent study117,118 mapped the close-knit social network of a class of students at a business school and found that pairs of people who have closer social relationships have more similar neural responses to narratives than do pairs of people who are less close (Fig. 4d).”
§ 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 [117] Parkinson, C., Kleinbaum, A. M. & Wheatley, T. Similar neural responses predict friendship. Nat. Commun. 9, 1532 (2018). source
- Not checked yetcites [118] Hyon, R., Kleinbaum, A. M. & Parkinson, C. Social network proximity predicts similar trajectories of psychological states: evidence from multi-voxel spatiotemporal dynamics. NeuroImage 216, 116492 (2020). source
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“At the same time, subtle differences in DMN neural response patterns across participants seem to correlate with subtle differences in their interpretation.”
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“Together, these studies suggest that, through the interaction between the intrinsic self and the extrinsic world, the DMN develops a shared neural code.”
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“Shared language, shared memories and shared schemas allow us to better align and couple our DMN responses.”
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“These findings demonstrate that comprehension-based processes in a listener’s brain are driven by, or shaped by, production-based processes in the speaker’s brain.”
§ 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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“the results suggest that participants who understand the situation in the same way will have similar neural patterns in nodes of the DMN, irrespective of considerable differences in the low-level stimulus properties of the sensory input.”
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“Strikingly, participants who had never seen the episode before showed spatio-temporally similar DMN activity to the speaker both as the speaker recalled the episode and as the speaker watched the episode (Fig. 4b,c).”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > The DMN in social interaction > The communication cycle.
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- Not checked yetcites [33] Zadbood, A., Chen, J., Leong, Y. C., Norman, K. A. & Hasson, U. How we transmit memories to other brains: constructing shared neural representations via communication. Cereb. Cortex 27, 4988–5000 (2017). source
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“Although unidirectional communication through television, movies, social media and even online learning is increasingly common (Fig. 1b), much of communication is bidirectional and requires mutual adaptation and coupling between individuals who act simultaneously as senders and receivers84.”
§ 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 [84] Hasson, U. & Frith, C. D. Mirroring and beyond: coupled dynamics as a generalized framework for modelling social interactions. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 371, 20150366 (2016). source
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“The increase in neural alignment following the consensus-building task persisted over novel clips sampled from the same movie.”
§ 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 [119] Sievers, B., Welker, C., Hasson, U., Kleinbaum, A. M. & Wheatley, T. How consensus-building conversation changes our minds and aligns our brains. Preprint at PsyArXiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/562z7 (2020). source
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“Speaker–listener coupling in early auditory regions reflected shared processing of low-level acoustic properties of the stimulus, such as the audio amplitude envelope.”
§ 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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“In other words, through reciprocal and dynamical social interaction, other people’s brains can shape your brain responses and, at the same time, be shaped by your brain’s responses to generate a shared reality (Fig. 1b).”
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“Moreover, listener comprehension was better predicted by the unique alignment between the listeners’ and the speaker’s response patterns as the speaker encoded the movie to memory, relative to the alignment to the responses of other participants who watched the movie but did not share their experience with the listeners.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > The DMN in social interaction > The communication cycle.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [33] Zadbood, A., Chen, J., Leong, Y. C., Norman, K. A. & Hasson, U. How we transmit memories to other brains: constructing shared neural representations via communication. Cereb. Cortex 27, 4988–5000 (2017). source
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“Even when isolated at home or lying down in a dark fMRI scanner during experiments, an individual’s brain responses are still shaped by the actions of others, as conveyed by audiovisual movies, spoken words or written text.”
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“Consensus-building conversation changed the minds of the participants and led to the alignment of their subsequent DMN neural responses as they watched the clip again.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > The DMN in social interaction > Social networks shape shared understanding.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [119] Sievers, B., Welker, C., Hasson, U., Kleinbaum, A. M. & Wheatley, T. How consensus-building conversation changes our minds and aligns our brains. Preprint at PsyArXiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/562z7 (2020). source
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“Emerging neuroscientific research provides evidence that neural alignment across subjects is influenced and shaped by the people with whom we are connected in our real and virtual social networks.”
§ 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 [117] Parkinson, C., Kleinbaum, A. M. & Wheatley, T. Similar neural responses predict friendship. Nat. Commun. 9, 1532 (2018). source
- Not checked yetcites [118] Hyon, R., Kleinbaum, A. M. & Parkinson, C. Social network proximity predicts similar trajectories of psychological states: evidence from multi-voxel spatiotemporal dynamics. NeuroImage 216, 116492 (2020). source
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“Shared neural activity at the top of the processing hierarchy, in the DMN, naturally arises from the tendency of social brains to align thoughts and actions.”
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“Furthermore, speaker–listener neural coupling in higher-order areas, including the DMN, reflected communication and shared understanding of the narrative.”
§ 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.
What the sources say
- 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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“Thus, the DMN representation must be invariant to changes in low-level perceptual properties that are not associated with changes in meaning or action.”
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“Brain–brain coupling was first reported in a study that correlated the responses in the speaker’s brain recorded while telling a personal story in the fMRI scanner with the listeners’ brain responses while listening to the story86.”
§ 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.
What the sources say
- 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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“Several recent studies have identified teacher–student DMN coupling during teaching and learning in both real-life classrooms110,111 and simulated classrooms88,112–116.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > The DMN in social interaction > The emergence of shared understanding.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [110] Bevilacqua, D. et al. Brain-to-brain synchrony and learning outcomes vary by student–teacher dynamics: evidence from a real-world classroom electroencephalography study. J. Cognit. Neurosci. 31, 401–411 (2019). source
- Not checked yetcites [111] Dikker, S. et al. Brain-to-brain synchrony tracks real-world dynamic group interactions in the classroom. Curr. Biol. 27, 1375–1380 (2017). source
- Not checked yetcites [88] Nguyen, M. L., Chang, A., Micciche, E., Meshulam, M. & Nastase, S. A. Teacher–student neural coupling during teaching and learning. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.07.082958 (2020). source
- Not checked yetcites [112] Pan, Y. et al. Instructor–learner brain coupling discriminates between instructional approaches and predicts learning. NeuroImage 211, 116657 (2020). source
- Not checked yetcites [113] Davidesco, I. et al. Brain-to-brain synchrony between students and teachers predicts learning outcomes. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/644047 (2019). source
- Not checked yetcites [114] Zheng, L. et al. Enhancement of teaching outcome through neural prediction of the students’ knowledge state. Hum. Brain. Mapp. 39, 3046–3057 (2018). source
- Not checked yetcites [115] Cohen, S. S. et al. Neural engagement with online educational videos predicts learning performance for individual students. Neurobiol. Learn. Mem. 155, 60–64 (2018). source
- Not checked yetcites [116] Meshulam, M. et al. Think like an expert: neural alignment predicts understanding in students taking an introduction to computer science course. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.05.079384 (2020). source
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“This study along with further studies revealed that speaker–listener coupling in the DMN, but not early auditory regions, is disrupted when communication is disrupted by either speaking nonsense words86,87, telling a story in a language that the listener does not understand86 or temporally scrambling the stimulus88.”
§ 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.
What the sources say
- 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
- Not checked yetcites [87] Silbert, L. J., Honey, C. J., Simony, E., Poeppel, D. & Hasson, U. Coupled neural systems underlie the production and comprehension of naturalistic narrative speech. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 111, E4687–E4696 (2014). source
- Not checked yetcites [88] Nguyen, M. L., Chang, A., Micciche, E., Meshulam, M. & Nastase, S. A. Teacher–student neural coupling during teaching and learning. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.07.082958 (2020). source
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“Our thoughts, feelings and actions are constantly being shaped by the actions, memories and stories of others.”
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“The full circle of experience transmission from the speaker’s brain to the listener’s brain has also been demonstrated33 (Fig. 4a).”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > The DMN in social interaction > The communication cycle.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [33] Zadbood, A., Chen, J., Leong, Y. C., Norman, K. A. & Hasson, U. How we transmit memories to other brains: constructing shared neural representations via communication. Cereb. Cortex 27, 4988–5000 (2017). source
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“Participants who were central in their real-world social networks played an outsized role in building group alignment.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > The DMN in social interaction > Social networks shape shared understanding.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [119] Sievers, B., Welker, C., Hasson, U., Kleinbaum, A. M. & Wheatley, T. How consensus-building conversation changes our minds and aligns our brains. Preprint at PsyArXiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/562z7 (2020). source
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“Notably, teacher–student neural coupling predicts student learning outcomes88,110,113,114,116.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > The DMN in social interaction > The emergence of shared understanding.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [88] Nguyen, M. L., Chang, A., Micciche, E., Meshulam, M. & Nastase, S. A. Teacher–student neural coupling during teaching and learning. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.07.082958 (2020). source
- Not checked yetcites [110] Bevilacqua, D. et al. Brain-to-brain synchrony and learning outcomes vary by student–teacher dynamics: evidence from a real-world classroom electroencephalography study. J. Cognit. Neurosci. 31, 401–411 (2019). source
- Not checked yetcites [113] Davidesco, I. et al. Brain-to-brain synchrony between students and teachers predicts learning outcomes. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/644047 (2019). source
- Not checked yetcites [114] Zheng, L. et al. Enhancement of teaching outcome through neural prediction of the students’ knowledge state. Hum. Brain. Mapp. 39, 3046–3057 (2018). source
- Not checked yetcites [116] Meshulam, M. et al. Think like an expert: neural alignment predicts understanding in students taking an introduction to computer science course. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.05.079384 (2020). source
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“The synthesis of different perspectives in the DMN depends primarily on the structure and nature of our social interactions and social connections.”
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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.
What the sources say
- 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.”
§ 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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“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).”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Abstract
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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”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Abstract
What the sources say
- 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).”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Abstract
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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.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Abstract
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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.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Abstract
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“Here, we propose that the shared representation in the DMN arises from dynamical social interaction between the self and others.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > The DMN in social interaction
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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.
What the sources say
- 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.
What the sources say
- 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.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > The DMN in social interaction > The emergence of shared understanding.
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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.
What the sources say
- 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.
What the sources say
- 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.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Conclusions
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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.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > An active sense-making network
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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.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Conclusions
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In the paper
“Sharing stories and building collaborations further enhance such coupling.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Conclusions
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In the paper
“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.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Conclusions
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In the paper
“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.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > Conclusions
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The paper relies on this without support.
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.
“Shared neural activity at the sensory level naturally arises from the tendency of these areas to align with the low-level perceptual properties of the external stimuli.”
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A given situation can be conveyed through speech, writing or abstract animated shapes.
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Across contexts, the same situation can carry very different meanings tied to different actions.
“Conversely, the same situation can have markedly different meanings associated with different actions across different contexts.”
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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.
“The development of shared understanding of concepts is also the hallmark of teaching and learning in formal education.”
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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).”
From Transforming Online Teacher Training Through Expansive Learning: A Case Study Applying Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and the Change Laboratory Method (2025) · cites this paper as 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.”
§ The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world > References
“1. Buckner RL & DiNicola LM The brain’s default network: updated anatomy, physiology and evolving insights. Nat. Rev. Neurosci 20, 593– 608 (2019).”
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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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