Every individual makes a difference: A trinity derived from linking individual brain morphometry, connectivity and mentalising ability.

ABSTRACT: Mentalising ability, indexed as the ability to understand others' beliefs, feelings, intentions, thoughts and traits, is a pivotal and fundamental component of human social cognition. However, considering the multifaceted nature of mentalising ability, little research has focused on characterising individual differences in different mentalising components. And even less research has been devoted to investigating how the variance in the structural and functional patterns of the amygdala and hippocampus, two vital subcortical regions of the "social brain", are related to inter-individual variability in mentalising ability. Here, as a first step toward filling these gaps, we exploited inter-subject representational similarity analysis (IS-RSA) to assess relationships between amygdala and hipp

SUBMITTER: Li Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10171537 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature