Getting on the same page: the neural basis for social coordination deficits in behavioral variant frontotemporal degeneration.

ABSTRACT: For social interactions to be successful, individuals must establish shared mental representations that allow them to reach a common understanding and "get on the same page". We refer to this process as social coordination. While examples of social coordination are ubiquitous in daily life, relatively little is known about the neuroanatomic basis of this complex behavior. This is particularly true in a language context, as previous studies have used overly complex paradigms to study this. Although traditional views of language processing and the recent interactive-alignment account of conversation focus on peri-Sylvian regions, our model of social coordination predicts prefrontal involvement. To test this hypothesis, we examine the neural basis of social coordination during conversational

SUBMITTER: Healey ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4344869 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature