Overlapping Functional Representations of Self- and Other-Related Thought are Separable Through Multivoxel Pattern Classification.

ABSTRACT: Self-reflection and thinking about the thoughts and behaviors of others are important skills for humans to function in the social world. These two processes overlap in terms of the component processes involved, and share overlapping functional organizations within the human brain, in particular within the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC). Several functional models have been proposed to explain these two processes, but none has directly explored the extent to which they are distinctly represented within different parts of the brain. This study used multivoxel pattern classification to quantify the separability of self- and other-related thought in the MPFC and expanded this question to the entire brain. Using a large-scale mega-analytic dataset, spanning three separate studies (n = 142), we

SUBMITTER: Parelman JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8924429 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature