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- Title
Social working memory and its distinctive link to social cognitive ability: an fMRI study.
- Authors
Meyer, Meghan L.; Taylor, Shelley E.; Lieberman, Matthew D.
- Abstract
Engaging social working memory (SWM) during effortful social cognition has been associated with neural activation in two neurocognitive systems: the medial frontoparietal system and the lateral frontoparietal system. However, the respective roles played by these systems in SWM remain unknown. Results from this study demonstrate that only the medial frontoparietal system supports the social cognitive demands managed in SWM. In contrast, the lateral frontoparietal system supports the non-social cognitive demands that are needed for task performance, but that are independent of the social cognitive computations. Moreover, parametric increases in the medial frontoparietal system, but not the lateral frontoparietal system, in response to SWM load predicted performance on a challenging measure of perspective-taking. Thus, the medial frontoparietal system may uniquely support social cognitive processes in working memory and the working memory demands afforded by effortful social cognition, such as the need to track another person's perspective in mind.
- Subjects
COLLECTIVE memory; SHORT-term memory; SOCIAL perception; FUNCTIONAL magnetic resonance imaging; PERSPECTIVE taking; DEFAULT mode network
- Publication
Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 2015, Vol 10, Issue 10, p1338
- ISSN
1749-5016
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/scan/nsv065