Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Electrocorticographic evidence of a common neurocognitive sequence for mentalizing about the self and others

  • Kevin M. Tan,
  • Amy L. Daitch,
  • Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas,
  • Kieran C. R. Fox,
  • Josef Parvizi,
  • Matthew D. Lieberman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29510-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The individual roles of default network regions in social thinking remain unclear. Using electrocorticography, the authors show a spatiotemporal hierarchy of neurocognitive specialization across temporoparietal and prefrontal default network regions.