Brain network reconfiguration for narrative and argumentative thought.

ABSTRACT: Our brain constructs reality through narrative and argumentative thought. Some hypotheses argue that these two modes of cognitive functioning are irreducible, reflecting distinct mental operations underlain by separate neural bases; Others ascribe both to a unitary neural system dedicated to long-timescale information. We addressed this question by employing inter-subject measures to investigate the stimulus-induced neural responses when participants were listening to narrative and argumentative texts during fMRI. We found that following both kinds of texts enhanced functional couplings within the frontoparietal control system. However, while a narrative specifically implicated the default mode system, an argument specifically induced synchronization between the intraparietal sulcus in the

SUBMITTER: Xu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8208997 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature