“Hey John”: Signals conveying communicative intention toward the self activate brain regions associated with “Mentalizing,” regardless of modality
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Successful communication between two people depends first on the recognition of the intention to communicate. Such intentions may be conveyed by signals directed at the self, such as calling a person's name or making eye contact. In this study we use functional magnetic resonance imaging to show that the perception of these two signals, which differ in modality and sensory channel, activate common brain regions: the paracingulate cortex and temporal poles bilaterally. These regions are part of a network that has been consistently activated when people are asked to think about the mental states of others. Activation of this network is independent of arousal as measured by changes in pupil diameter.
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Kampe et al. (2003) found significant activation of the superior frontal gyrus only when participants heard their own name compared with a random name.
“Results found significant activation of the superior frontal gyrus (SFG) only when hearing their own name compared with a random name.”
From Exploring Theater Neuroscience: Using Wearable Functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy to Measure the Sense of Self and Interpersonal Coordination in Professional Actors (2022) · cites this paper as Kampe, Frith, and Frith (2003)
The pFC is engaged by self-related concepts and responds to hearing one's own name.
“We also know that the pFC is engaged by self-related concepts (Northoff et al., 2006) and responds to hearing one ' s own name (Imafuku et al., 2014; Kampe et al., 2003).”
From Exploring Theater Neuroscience: Using Wearable Functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy to Measure the Sense of Self and Interpersonal Coordination in Professional Actors (2022) · cites this paper as Kampe et al., 2003
The pattern of results is consistent with the hypothesis that acting involves a suppression of the sense of self.
“This pattern is consistent with the hypothesis that acting involves a suppression of the sense of self as (Brown et al., 2019) showed that, when participants in MRI are required to respond as if they were Juliet (or Romeo), they showed reduced activity of the mPFC and SFG (Kampe et al., 2003).”
From Exploring Theater Neuroscience: Using Wearable Functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy to Measure the Sense of Self and Interpersonal Coordination in Professional Actors (2022) · cites this paper as Kampe et al., 2003
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- Authors
- Kampe, K. K. W., Frith, C. D., & Frith, U.
- Affiliations
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (DE)
- ORCID
- Frith, Chris D.
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2003-06-15
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 5258-5263
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC6741156
- OpenAlex
- W2146231582
- Cited by
- 406
- References
- 37
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- FWCI
- 15.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University College London
- Medical Research Council
- 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
- mentalization, communicative intention, paracingulate cortex, temporal pole, social cognition, eye contact, auditory signals, pupil size, arousal
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Arousal, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Communication, Face, Female, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Nerve Net, Photic Stimulation, Reference Values, Reflex, Pupillary, Temporal Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex, Intention
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