Social, self,(situational), and affective processes in medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC): Causal, multivariate, and reverse inference evidence

MD Lieberman, MA Straccia, ML Meyer, M Du… - Neuroscience & …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) has been posited to serve a variety of social, affective,
and cognitive functions. These conclusions have largely been driven by forward inference …

Overlap** and specific neural correlates for empathizing, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing: A coordinate‐based meta‐analytic study

M Arioli, Z Cattaneo, E Ricciardi… - Human Brain …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
While the discussion on the foundations of social understanding mainly revolves around the
notions of empathy, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing, their degree of overlap …

Formalizing emotion concepts within a Bayesian model of theory of mind

R Saxe, SD Houlihan - Current opinion in Psychology, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Humans recognize and reason about specific fine-grained emotions in
others.•Generative causal models of people's intuitive theory of mind can formalize human …

Dynamic changes in amygdala psychophysiological connectivity reveal distinct neural networks for facial expressions of basic emotions

M Diano, M Tamietto, A Celeghin, L Weiskrantz… - Scientific reports, 2017‏ - nature.com
The quest to characterize the neural signature distinctive of different basic emotions has
recently come under renewed scrutiny. Here we investigated whether facial expressions of …

Perceiving emotional expressions in others: activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses of explicit evaluation, passive perception and incidental perception of …

M Dricu, S Frühholz - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016‏ - Elsevier
We conducted a series of activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analyses to determine
the commonalities and distinctions between separate levels of emotion perception, namely …

The dorsal medial prefrontal cortex responds preferentially to social interactions during natural viewing

DD Wagner, WM Kelley, JV Haxby… - Journal of …, 2016‏ - jneurosci.org
Humans display a strong tendency to make spontaneous inferences concerning the
thoughts and intentions of others. Although this ability relies upon the concerted effort of …

Primary functional brain connections associated with melancholic major depressive disorder and modulation by antidepressants

N Ichikawa, G Lisi, N Yahata, G Okada, M Takamura… - Scientific reports, 2020‏ - nature.com
The limited efficacy of available antidepressant therapies may be due to how they affect the
underlying brain network. The purpose of this study was to develop a melancholic MDD …

The role of the cerebellum in explicit and incidental processing of facial emotional expressions: a study with transcranial magnetic stimulation

C Ferrari, V Oldrati, M Gallucci, T Vecchi, Z Cattaneo - NeuroImage, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Growing evidence suggests that the cerebellum plays a critical role in non-motor functions,
contributing to cognitive and affective processing. In particular, the cerebellum might …

Social brain volume is associated with in-degree social network size among older adults

S Kwak, W Joo, Y Youm, J Chey - Proceedings of the …, 2018‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The social brain hypothesis proposes that large neocortex size evolved to support
cognitively demanding social interactions. Accordingly, previous studies have observed that …

Dissociable roles within the social brain for self–other processing: a HD-tDCS study

AK Martin, J Huang, A Hunold, M Meinzer - Cerebral Cortex, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
Theories of right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) function in social cognition include self–
other distinction, self-inhibition, or embodied rotation, whereas the dorsomedial prefrontal …