Private–public mappings in human prefrontal cortex
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A core feature of human cognition is an ability to separate private states of mind - what we think or believe - from public actions - what we say or do. This ability is central to successful social interaction - with different social contexts often requiring different mappings between private states and public actions in order to minimise conflict and facilitate communication. Here we investigated how the human brain supports private-public mappings, using an interactive task which required subjects to adapt how they communicated their confidence about a perceptual decision to the social context. Univariate and multivariate analysis of fMRI data revealed that a private-public distinction is reflected in a medial-lateral division of prefrontal cortex - with lateral frontal pole (FPl) supporting the context-dependent mapping from a private sense of confidence to a public report. The concept of private-public mappings provides a promising framework for understanding flexible social behaviour.
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In an fMRI study of social coordination about random dot motion judgments, vmPFC (specifically pgACC) covaried with private estimates of propositional confidence, whereas lateral frontopolar cortex carried information about the extent to which a private-public mapping should be adjusted when communicating a public judgment.
“In an fMRI study of such social coordination about random dot motion judgments, it was found that whereas vmPFC (specifically, pgACC) covaried with private estimates of propositional confidence, as found in previous work, lateral frontopolar cortex additionally carried information about the extent to which a private-public mapping should be adjusted when communicating a public judgment (Bang et al”
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- Bang, D., Ershadmanesh, S., Nili, H., & Fleming, S. M.
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- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome (213630/Z/18/Z, 206648/Z/17/Z)
- Royal Society (206648/Z/17/Z)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Keywords
- prefrontal cortex, perceptual decision making, social environment, social cognition, metacognition
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Brain Mapping, Decision Making, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Perception, Prefrontal Cortex, Young Adult
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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