Nature Communications (May 2018)

Trait paranoia shapes inter-subject synchrony in brain activity during an ambiguous social narrative

  • Emily S. Finn,
  • Philip R. Corlett,
  • Gang Chen,
  • Peter A. Bandettini,
  • R. Todd Constable

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04387-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Reactions to the same event can vary vastly based on multiple factors. Here the authors show that people with high trait-level paranoia process ambiguous information in a narrative differently and this can be attributed to greater activity in mentalizing brain regions during the moments of ambiguity.