dc.contributor.author | Alcalá-López, Daniel | |
dc.contributor.author | Mei, Ning | |
dc.contributor.author | Margolles, Pedro | |
dc.contributor.author | Soto, David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-05T10:56:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-07-05T10:56:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Alcala-López, D., Mei, N., Margolles, P., & Soto, D. (2024). Brain-wide representation of social knowledge. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 19(1):nsae032. Doi:10.1093/scan/nsae032 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.citation | Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1749-5024 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/68786 | |
dc.description | Published on 13 June 2024 | es_ES |
dc.description.abstract | Understanding how the human brain maps different dimensions of social conceptualizations remains a key unresolved issue. We performed a functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study in which participants were exposed to audio definitions of personality traits and asked to simulate experiences associated with the concepts. Half of the concepts were affective (e.g. empathetic), and the other half were non-affective (e.g. intelligent). Orthogonally, half of the concepts were highly likable (e.g. sincere) and half were socially undesirable (e.g. liar). Behaviourally, we observed that the dimension of social desirability reflected the participant’s subjective ratings better than affect. FMRI decoding results showed that both social desirability and affect could be decoded in local patterns of activity through distributed brain regions including the superior temporal, inferior frontal, precuneus and key nodes of the default mode network in posterior/anterior cingulate and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Decoding accuracy was better for social desirability than affect. A representational similarity analysis further demonstrated that a deep language model significantly predicted brain activity associated with the concepts in bilateral regions of superior and anterior temporal lobes. The results demonstrate a brain-wide representation of social knowledge, involving default model network systems that support the multimodal simulation of social experience, with a further reliance on language-related preprocessing. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | D.S. acknowledges financial support from the Basque Government through the BERC 2022-2025 program, and from the Spanish State Research Agency, through the ‘Severo Ochoa’ Programme for Centres/Units of Excellence in R & D (CEX2020-001010-S). | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | OXFORD | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/GV/BERC2022-2025 | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/CEX2020-001010-S | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.subject | social cognition | es_ES |
dc.subject | abstract concepts | es_ES |
dc.subject | language models | es_ES |
dc.subject | searchlight decoding | es_ES |
dc.title | Brain-wide representation of social knowledge | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright © 2024, © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press. | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://academic.oup.com/scan | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/scan/nsae032 | |