SynthesisHuman brain mapping2021
Social cognition in the blind brain: A coordinate-based meta-analysis.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- A neuroimaging meta-analysis on social impression formation of stable characteristics.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2026Pooled it
- Social perception in deaf individuals: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.Human brain mapping · 2023Pooled it
- Cognition, body, and mind: A three-in-one coordinate-based fMRI meta-analysis on cognitive, physical, and meditative trainings.Human brain mapping · 2023Pooled it
- Relational vs representational social cognitive processing: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging data.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
- Alterations in executive functions in inmates convicted for violent behavior: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Neural substrates of spatial processing and navigation in blindness: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Overlapping and specific neural correlates for empathizing, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing: A coordinate-based meta-analytic study.Human brain mapping · 2021Pooled it
- Social cognition in the blind brain: A coordinate-based meta-analysis.Human brain mapping · 2021Pooled it
- Perception and discrimination of real-life emotional vocalizations in early blind individuals.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The importance of pro-social processing, and ameliorating dysfunction in schizophrenia. An FMRI study of oxytocin.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2022Article
- Grip force as a functional window to somatosensory cognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Social cognition skills are typically acquired on the basis of visual information (e.g., the observation of gaze, facial expressions, gestures). In light of this, a critical issue is whether and how the lack of visual experience affects neurocognitive mechanisms underlying social skills. This issue has been largely neglected in the literature on blindness, despite difficulties in social interactions may be particular salient in the life of blind individuals (especially children). Here we provide a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies reporting brain activations associated to the representation of self and others' in early blind individuals and in sighted controls. Our results indicate that early blindness does not critically impact on the development of the "social brain," with social tasks performed on the basis of auditory or tactile information driving consistent activations in nodes of the action observation network, typically active during actual observation of others in sighted individuals. Interestingly though, activations along this network appeared more left-lateralized in the blind than in sighted participants. These results may have important implications for the development of specific training programs to improve social skills in blind children and young adults.
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