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The Social Brain Automatically Predicts Others' Future Mental States

Mark A. Thornton, Miriam E. Weaverdyck and Diana I. Tamir
Journal of Neuroscience 2 January 2019, 39 (1) 140-148; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1431-18.2018
Mark A. Thornton
1Department of Psychology and
2Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
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Diana I. Tamir
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    Whole-brain mapping of the neural representation of transitional probabilities between states. A, Transitional probability judgments correlated with neural pattern similarity in medial prefrontal cortex. B, The same transitional probability judgments predict repetition suppression in the posterior precuneus. Results are corrected for multiple comparisons (p < 0.05).

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    Transitional probabilities were associated with neural pattern similarity in the social brain network. A, Social brain network analyses were conducted within these independently defined regions. B, Neural patterns for each state resembled the pattern of states to which it was likely to transition. Transitional probabilities between mental states correlated with neural pattern similarity between those states. Each participant was analyzed as an independent unit (light gray lines) and then averaged (black line). The shaded region around the mean slope represents the bootstrapped 95% confidence interval.

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The Social Brain Automatically Predicts Others' Future Mental States
Mark A. Thornton, Miriam E. Weaverdyck, Diana I. Tamir
Journal of Neuroscience 2 January 2019, 39 (1) 140-148; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1431-18.2018

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Mark A. Thornton, Miriam E. Weaverdyck, Diana I. Tamir
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  • emotion
  • functional magnetic resonance imaging
  • predictive coding
  • repetition suppression
  • representational similarity analysis
  • social cognition

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