Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Social training reconfigures prediction errors to shape Self-Other boundaries

  • Sam Ereira,
  • Tobias U. Hauser,
  • Rani Moran,
  • Giles W. Story,
  • Raymond J. Dolan,
  • Zeb Kurth-Nelson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16856-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The human brain can simulate other people’s mental processes with Self-specific and Other-specific neural circuits, but it is not known how these circuits emerge. Here, the authors show that these circuits adapt to social experience, to determine whether a computation is attributed to Self or Other.