Neural correlates of anchoring-and-adjustment during mentalizing.

ABSTRACT: Recent studies have suggested that the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) contributes both to understanding the mental states of others and to introspecting about one's own mind. This finding has suggested that perceivers might use their own thoughts and feelings as a starting point for making inferences about others, consistent with "simulation" or "self-projection" views of social cognition. However, perceivers cannot simply assume that others think and feel exactly as they do; social cognition also must include processes that adjust for perceived differences between self and other. Recent cognitive work has suggested that such correction occurs through a process of "anchoring-and-adjustment" by which perceivers serially tune their inferences from an initial starting point based on their ow

SUBMITTER: Tamir DI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2890763 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature