ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2022
Overlapping Functional Representations of Self- and Other-Related Thought are Separable Through Multivoxel Pattern Classification.
Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Self-referential judgments from the same personality trait scales show increased representational similarity in mPFC.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Decomposing Cognitive Processes in the mPFC during Self-Thinking.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- The Self-Concept Is Represented in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Terms of Self-Importance.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- The Age of Reason: Functional Brain Network Development during Childhood.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- The Creative Neurons.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Self-reflection and thinking about the thoughts and behaviors of others are important skills for humans to function in the social world. These two processes overlap in terms of the component processes involved, and share overlapping functional organizations within the human brain, in particular within the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC). Several functional models have been proposed to explain these two processes, but none has directly explored the extent to which they are distinctly represented within different parts of the brain. This study used multivoxel pattern classification to quantify the separability of self- and other-related thought in the MPFC and expanded this question to the entire brain. Using a large-scale mega-analytic dataset, spanning three separate studies (n = 142), we find that self- and other-related thought can be reliably distinguished above chance within the MPFC, posterior cingulate cortex and temporal lobes. We highlight subcomponents of the ventral MPFC that are particularly important in representing self-related thought, and subcomponents of the orbitofrontal cortex robustly involved in representing other-related thought. Our findings indicate that representations of self- and other-related thought in the human brain are described best by a distributed pattern rather than stark localization or a purely ventral to dorsal linear gradient in the MPFC.
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