Neural dissociations between meaningful and mere inconsistency in impression updating.

ABSTRACT: Recent neuroimaging work has identified a network of regions that work in concert to update impressions of other people, particularly in response to inconsistent behavior. However, the specific functional contributions of these regions to the updating process remain unclear. Using fMRI, we tested whether increases in activity triggered by inconsistent behavior reflect changes in the stored representations of other people in response to behavioral inconsistency, or merely a response to the inconsistency itself. Participants encountered a series of individuals whose behavior either changed in an attributionally meaningful fashion or was merely inconsistent with the immediately preceding behavior. We observed that left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) and left inferior frontal gyrus (I

SUBMITTER: Mende-Siedlecki P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5015807 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature