ReviewNeuroImage2020
Social cognition in context: A naturalistic imaging approach.
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56 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 109 citations in OpenAlex.
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- A systematic review of the effects of psychiatric medications on social cognition.BMC psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
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- The cognitive-behavioral missing link in myotonic dystrophy type 1: Rethinking social cognition assessment.Journal of neuromuscular diseases · 2026Article
- Effects of aging on the mechanisms of dynamic integration between the default mode network and other brain networks: evidence based on fMRI data with natural stimulation.Brain imaging and behavior · 2026Article
- A neuroimaging dataset combining movie-watching, eye-tracking, sensorimotor mapping, and cognitive tasks.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Phase synchronization modes are associated with heterogeneous social orienting in children and adolescents with autism.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- Learning via short videos impairs memory accuracy and reduces brain synchrony.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Inter-subject correlations and their behavioral associations vary across movies: Implications for generalizability.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Intermittent Theta-Burst Stimulation (iTBS) Modulates Abnormal Brain Activity During Emotional Arousal in Adolescent Depression: A Pilot Study.Brain topography · 2026Article
- Rethinking Naturalistic Movie Neuroimaging Through Film Form.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Tamoxifen as a Therapeutic Intervention for Neurobehavioral Deficits in a Propionic Acid-Induced Autism Model via Anti-inflammatory Mechanisms.Neurochemical research · 2026Article
- Pregistered movie-fMRI analyses reveal altered visual feature encoding in autism in pSTS.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Evoked emotions in anorexia nervosa: neural and behavioural correlates of social-emotional processing.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- A novel ecological approach to assess theory of Mind and social norm understanding for social cognition phenotyping in multiple sclerosis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying contextual processing in naturalistic short video viewing.iScience · 2026Article
- Regional activity and interregional functional connectivity uniquely contribute to social cognitive judgments during movie-watching.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Integration of affective cues in context-rich and dynamic scenes varies across individuals.Nature communications · 2025Article
- No evidence for disruption of empathy and mentalizing by face coverage in multimodal settings.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Social inference brain networks in autistic adults during movie-viewing: functional specialization and heterogeneity.Molecular autism · 2025Article
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Abstract
Social processing occurs within dynamic, complex, and multimodal contexts, but the study of social cognition typically involves static, artificial stimuli. Naturalistic approaches (e.g., movie viewing) can recapture the richness and complexity of real-world interactions. Novel analytic approaches allow for the investigation of functional brain organization in response to contextually embedded and extended events with a complex temporal structure during movie viewing or narrative processing. In addition to these within-brain measures, movies afford between-brain analyses such as inter-subject correlation, which allows for identification of stimulus-specific brain response through the correlation of brain activity between participants' brains. Research using these approaches offers both practical and theoretical advantages in understanding how we navigate our social world. Practically, movies are engaging stimuli that allow for more rapid presentation of multiple event types and improve compliance even in very young populations. Theoretically, studies have validated the use of these measures by demonstrating functional selectivity to contextually embedded stimuli. Naturalistic approaches also allow for novel insights. For example, regions associated with social cognition have longer temporal receptive windows, making them well suited to social-cognitive processes that require integration of information over longer timescales. Furthermore, the similarity in the temporal and spatial brain response between individuals during naturalistic viewing is related to age, predictive of friendships, and reduced in autism spectrum disorder. These findings offer first glimpses into the power of using these naturalistic, dynamic approaches to understand how we perceive, reason about, and interact with others.
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