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Functional MRI reveals evidence of a self-positivity bias in the medial prefrontal cortex during the comprehension of social vignettes
| العنوان: | Functional MRI reveals evidence of a self-positivity bias in the medial prefrontal cortex during the comprehension of social vignettes |
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| المؤلفون: | Fields, Eric C, Weber, Kirsten, Stillerman, Benjamin, Delaney-Busch, Nathaniel, Kuperberg, Gina R |
| المساهمون: | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Mental Health |
| المصدر: | Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience ; volume 14, issue 6, page 613-621 ; ISSN 1749-5016 1749-5024 |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| الوصف: | A large literature in social neuroscience has associated the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) with the processing of self-related information. However, only recently have social neuroscience studies begun to consider the large behavioral literature showing a strong self-positivity bias, and these studies have mostly focused on its correlates during self-related judgments and decision-making. We carried out a functional MRI (fMRI) study to ask whether the mPFC would show effects of the self-positivity bias in a paradigm that probed participants’ self-concept without any requirement of explicit self-judgment. We presented social vignettes that were either self-relevant or non-self-relevant with a neutral, positive or negative outcome described in the second sentence. In previous work using event-related potentials, this paradigm has shown evidence of a self-positivity bias that influences early stages of semantically processing incoming stimuli. In the present fMRI study, we found evidence for this bias within the mPFC: an interaction between self-relevance and valence, with only positive scenarios showing a self vs other effect within the mPFC. We suggest that the mPFC may play a role in maintaining a positively biased self-concept and discuss the implications of these findings for the social neuroscience of the self and the role of the mPFC. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1093/scan/nsz035 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/scan/nsz035/28884927/nsz035.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz035 http://academic.oup.com/scan/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/scan/nsz035/28884927/nsz035.pdf http://academic.oup.com/scan/article-pdf/14/6/613/29111316/nsz035.pdf |
| Rights: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.1F1C3B58 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1093/scan/nsz035 |
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