Sophisticated perspective-takers are distinctive: Neural idiosyncrasy of functional connectivity in the mentalizing network.

ABSTRACT: Naive perspective-takers often perceive the social world in a simplistic and uniform way, whereas sophisticated ones recognize the diversity and complexity of others' minds. This commonly accepted distinction points to a possibility of greater inter-individual variability in mentalizing for sophisticated than naive perspective-takers, a difference previously overlooked in research. In the current study, participants were asked to watch a mentalizing-related movie and their neural responses, interpretations of the characters' mental states, and eye-gaze trajectories were recorded. The results provide robust and converging evidence that the neural connectomic features within the mentalizing network, eye-gaze trajectories, and interpretations of others' mental states exhibit greater inter-ind

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11667172 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature