Relational vs representational social cognitive processing: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging data.

ABSTRACT: The neurocognitive bases of social cognition have been framed in terms of representing others' actions through the mirror system and their mental states via the mentalizing network. Alongside representing another person's actions or mental states, however, social cognitive processing is also shaped by their (mis)match with one's own corresponding states. Here, we addressed the distinction between representing others' states through the action observation or mentalizing networks (i.e. representational processing) and detecting the extent to which such states align with one's own ones (i.e. relational processing, mediated by social conflict). We took a meta-analytic approach to unveil the neural bases of both relational and representational processing by focusing on previously reported brain

SUBMITTER: Arioli M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9976764 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature