COMMON AND DISTINCT NEURAL CORRELATES OF SOCIAL INTERACTION PERCEPTION AND THEORY OF MIND.

ABSTRACT: Social interaction perception and theory of mind (ToM) frequently co-occur, but their commonalities and distinctions at behavioral and neural levels remain unclear. Participants (N = 231) provided moment-by-moment ratings of four text and four audio narratives on social interactions and ToM engagement, which were reliable (split-half r = .98 and .92, respectively) but only modestly correlated (r = .32). In a second sample (N = 90), we analyzed the co-variation between social interaction and ToM ratings and fMRI activity during text and audio narratives. Social interaction and ToM activity maps generalized across modalities (spatial r = .83 and .57, respectively), both with significant, overlapping clusters in canonical mentalizing regions (FDR q <

SUBMITTER: Miao Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11702675 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature