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Distinct Regions of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Are Associated with Self-referential Processing and Perspective Taking
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The medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) appears to play a prominent role in two fundamental aspects of social cognition, that is, self-referential processing and perspective taking. However, it is currently unclear whether the same or different regions of the MPFC mediate these two interdependent processes. This functional magnetic resonance imaging study sought to clarify the issue by manipulating both dimensions in a factorial design. Participants judged the extent to which trait adjectives described their own personality (e.g., “Are you sociable?”) or the personality of a close friend (e.g., “Is Caroline sociable?”) and were also asked to put themselves in the place of their friend (i.e., to take a third-person perspective) and estimate how this person would judge the adjectives, with the target of the judgments again being either the self (e.g., “According to Caroline, are you sociable?”) or the other person (e.g., “According to Caroline, is she sociable?”). We found that self-referential processing (i.e., judgments targeting the self vs. the other person) yielded activation in the ventral and dorsal anterior MPFC, whereas perspective taking (i.e., adopting the other person's perspective, rather than one's own, when making judgments) resulted in activation in the posterior dorsal MPFC; the interaction between the two dimensions yielded activation in the left dorsal MPFC. These findings show that self-referential processing and perspective taking recruit distinct regions of the MPFC and suggest that the left dorsal MPFC may be involved in decoupling one's own from other people's perspectives on the self.
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“It is interesting to note that when people think about the self from others' point of view (e.g.'Does my teacher think that I am lazy?'), the mPFC activation disappears.Instead, a more dorsal and posterior part of the PFC receives prominent activations (D' Argembeau et al., 2007).”
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Neural Correlates of Empathy in Boys With Early Onset Conduct Disorder
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“Our observation of left VMPFC/MOFC activation during self-referential processing within HC individuals is consistent with several previous findings (D’Argembeau et al., 2007; Northoff et al., 2006).”
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Gatersleben, B., Wyles, K., Myers, A., & Opitz, B. (2020) · Landscape and Urban Planning · doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103758 · Cited by 15
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“Secondly, self-referential processing is characterized by a greater activation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC; Northoff et al., 2006; D’Argembeau et al., 2007; Denny et al., 2012; Martinelli et al., 2013; Yaoi et al., 2015), a cortical area that is also involved in cognitive and physiological self-regula…”
BackgroundIntranasal oxytocin modulates the salience network in aging
Liu, P., Lin, T., Feifel, D., & Ebner, N. C. (2022) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119045 · Cited by 13
“The mPFC constitutes a key node in the default mode network (e.g., selfreferential processing; D’Argembeau et al., 2007; Di Simplicio et al., 2012; Kurczek et al., 2015), while the amygdala and the insula constitute key nodes in the salience network (e.”
Fronto‐Insular Connectivity during Pain Distraction Is Impaired in Patients with Somatoform Pain
Stankewitz, A., Sorg, C., von Kalckreuth, A., Schulz, E., Valet, M., Neufang, S., Zimmer, C., Henningsen, P., Gündel, H., Wohlschläger, A. M., et al. (2018) · Journal of Neuroimaging · doi:10.1111/jon.12547 · Cited by 17
How Do You See Me? The Neural Basis of Motivated Meta-perception
Flagan, T., Mumford, J. A., & Beer, J. S. (2017) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01169 · Cited by 15
“A few studies have examined the neural associations of meta-perceptions, and most have found an association with VMPFC activity (e.g., Veroude, Jolles, Croiset, & Krabbendam, 2014; Pfeifer et al., 2009; Ochsner et al., 2005, but see also D’Argembeau et al., 2007).”
BackgroundFox, K. C. R., Kang, Y., Lifshitz, M., & Kalina Christoff, A. (2016) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1605.03553 · Cited by 11
“The medial prefrontal cortex (PFC), with its strong involvement in self-referential processing (D’Argembeau et al., 2007; Northoff et al., 2006), and the posterior cingulate cortex and temporopolar cortex, which are strongly tied to recall, elaboration, and processing of memory (Andrews-Hanna, Reidler, Sepulcre, Pouli…”
BackgroundLi, M., Guo, F., Li, Z., Ma, H., & Duffy, V. G. (2024) · Ergonomics · doi:10.1080/00140139.2024.2343954 · Cited by 14
“…information, while the right mPFc is involved in risky decision-making and social cognition about self-assessment (apparsundaram et al. 2005; D’argembeau et al. 2007; euston, Gruber, and Mcnaughton 2012; Van Overwalle 2009). the activation of rtPJ is regarded as a reflection of mentalizing,…”
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“taking of the third-person perspective increased the activation of brain regions including the DMPFC and the left IPC (D’Argembeau et al., 2007).”
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“…Miles, Cabeza, & Labar, 2010; Brierley, Medford, Shaw, & David, 2004), visual cortex (e.g., Daselaar et al., 2008; Greenberg & Rubin, 2003; Rubin & Greenberg, 1998), and medial prefrontal cortex (e.g., D’Argembeau et al., 2007; Northoff et al., 2006; St. Jacques, Conway, Lowder, & Cabeza, 2011).”
Charitable Estate Planning as Visualized Autobiography
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MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX AND COGNITIVE REGULATION
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Neural correlates of impaired cognitive processes underlying self-unawareness in Alzheimer's disease
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“…we used self-referential tasks in a task-switching paradigm for the first time, personality judgement tasks have been extensively used in previous studies on the sense of self and its neural bases in similarly fast-paced experiments (Kelley et al. 2002; D’Argembeau et al. 2007; Davey et al. 2016).”
MethodKoski, J. E., McHaney, J. R., Rigney, A. E., & Beer, J. S. (2020) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116752 · Cited by 12
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Social and Nonsocial Relational Reasoning in Adolescence and Adulthood
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“For example, the MPFC is recruited when thinking about how another person would appraise us (Ochsner et al., 2005; Amodio and Frith, 2006; D’Argembeau et al., 2007; Frith and Frith, 2008; Izuma et al., 2008, 2010a; Sugiura et al., 2012).”
BackgroundCortical dynamics of a self driven choice: A MEG study during a card sorting task
Hénaff, M., Bayle, D. J., Krolak‐Salmon, P., & Fonlupt, P. (2010) · Clinical Neurophysiology · doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2009.11.082 · Cited by 12
“In this way, the ‘‘PFC3” activation reflects the direction of attention toward previously described internal state involving memory, reasoning and self referencing (D’Argembeau et al., 2007; Fangmeier et al., 2006; Gusnard et al., 2001; Mitchell et al., 2005).”
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The Impact of Employee Stakeholder Orientation on Job Satisfaction and Perspective-Taking
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“…by measuring observable behaviors or affect or using neural imaging of the medial prefrontal cortex (the key brain region associated with perspective-taking; D’Argembeau et al., 2007) could add further evidence to clarify the underlying relationships among variables explored in this article.”
BackgroundSelf‐deception: Distorted metacognitive process in ambiguous contexts
Mei, D., Ke, Z., Li, Z., Zhang, W., Gao, D., & Yin, L. (2022) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.26116 · Cited by 12
“The metacognitive process is thinking about and monitoring one's cognitive process and self-referential belief thoughts (D'Argembeau et al., 2007; J. P. Mitchell et al., 2005; Northoff et al., 2006; Sheline et al., 2009).”
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“Previous studies reported that perspective taking is associated with the medial prefrontal cortex (D'Argembeau et al., 2007) and that glutamate in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, but not the anterior cingulate, correlated perspective taking on the IRI (Montag et al., 2008).”
BackgroundParelman, J. M., Doré, B., Cooper, N., O'Donnell, M., Chan, H.-Y., & Falk, E. (2021) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhab272 · Cited by 10
“2005) or their own personality traits (Heatherton et al. 2006; D’Argembeau et al. 2007; Beer et al. 2010; Rameson et al. 2010; Martinelli et al. 2013), the MPFC is reliably activated.”
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“Another such study suggested that more dorsal mPFC is involved in differentiating one’s own from others’ perspectives on the self (D’Argembeau et al., 2007).”
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“…(Biswal et al., 1995); the auditory network (AUD), involving, bilaterally, the superior and middle temporal cortex (Seifritz et al., 2002) and the self-referential network (SRN) involving the ventro-medial prefrontal cortex and the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex (D'Argembeau et al., 2007).”
BackgroundEmotion Dysregulation Among Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder
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Brain fingerprint and subjective mood state across the menstrual cycle
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Functional connectivity of the medial prefrontal cortex related to mindreading abilities
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“In parallel, the dmPFC is assumed to play a role in the decoupling of different perspectives, enabling individuals to distinguish their own perspective from those of others (D’Argembeau et al. 2007; Isoda and Noritake 2013).”
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“of others, or mentalization (TPJ, mPFC), and understanding how social events relate to the self (mPFC, precuneus; D’Argembeau et al., 2007; Johnson et al., 2002; Mitchell, Banaji, & Macrae, 2005).”
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Attractiveness Modulates Neural Processing of Infant Faces Differently in Males and Females
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“Similarly, activation of the vmDFC was found for judgments targeting the self (vs. judgments targeting the other), whereas the activation in the dmPFC was found when taking a third-person perspective compared to a first-person one (D’Argembeau et al., 2007).”
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Callous-unemotional traits in adolescents moderate neural network associations with empathy
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Exploring Sex Differences in the Neural Correlates of Self-and Other-Referential Gender Stereotyping
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The neural basis of desire reasoning for self and others: an event-related potential study
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“In fact, several earlier studies have explored the neural activity of self-referential processing in different perspectives using the self-reference paradigm (D’Argembeau et al., 2007; Ochsner et al., 2005; Ruby et al., 2009).”
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- Authors
- D'Argembeau, A., Ruby, P., Collette, F., Degueldre, C., Balteau, E., Luxen, A., Maquet, P., & Salmon, E.
- Affiliations
- 1University of Liège, Belgium
- Inserm (FR)
- University of Liège (BE)
- Venue
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Publisher
- MIT Press - Journals
- Published
- 2007-06-01
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 935-944
- ISSN
- 0898-929X (ISSN-L)
- 1530-8898
- OpenAlex
- W2026985064
- Cited by
- 495
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- 0
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- FWCI
- 40.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- orbi.uliege.be
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- other-oa
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- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- medial prefrontal cortex, self-referential processing, perspective taking, social cognition, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, ventral anterior cingulate cortex, self-other distinction, personality judgment, third-person perspective
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain Mapping, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Judgment, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Mental Processes, Reaction Time, Self Concept, Prefrontal Cortex
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