Distance and grid-like codes support the navigation of abstract social space in the human brain.

ABSTRACT: People form impressions about others during daily social encounters and infer personality traits from others' behaviors. Such trait inference is thought to rely on two universal dimensions: competence and warmth. These two dimensions can be used to construct a 'social cognitive map' organizing massive information obtained from social encounters efficiently. Originating from spatial cognition, the neural codes supporting the representation and navigation of spatial cognitive maps have been widely studied. Recent studies suggest similar neural mechanism subserves the map-like architecture in social cognition as well. Here we investigated how spatial codes operate beyond the physical environment and support the representation and navigation of social cognitive map. We designed a social value

SUBMITTER: Liang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11178359 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature