Network structure underlying resolution of conflicting non-verbal and verbal social information

Autor: Hidemasa Takao, Tatsunobu Natsubori, Akira Kunimatsu, Hideyuki Inoue, Hidenori Yamasue, Wataru Gonoi, Kiyoto Kasai, Norichika Iwashiro, Masaki Katsura, Osamu Abe, Hiroki Sasaki, Yuki Kawakubo, Yosuke Takano, Noriaki Yahata, Takamitsu Watanabe, Mizuho Murakami
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 9:767-775
ISSN: 1749-5024
1749-5016
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nst046
Popis: Social judgments often require resolution of incongruity in communication contents. Although previous studies revealed that such conflict resolution recruits brain regions including the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and posterior inferior frontal gyrus (pIFG), functional relationships and networks among these regions remain unclear. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we investigated the functional dissociation and networks by measuring human brain activity during resolving incongruity between verbal and non-verbal emotional contents. First, we found that the conflict resolutions biased by the non-verbal contents activated the posterior dorsal mPFC (post-dmPFC), bilateral anterior insula (AI) and right dorsal pIFG, whereas the resolutions biased by the verbal contents activated the bilateral ventral pIFG. In contrast, the anterior dmPFC (ant-dmPFC), bilateral superior temporal sulcus and fusiform gyrus were commonly involved in both of the resolutions. Second, we found that the post-dmPFC and right ventral pIFG were hub regions in networks underlying the non-verbal– and verbal–content-biased resolutions, respectively. Finally, we revealed that these resolution-type–specific networks were bridged by the ant-dmPFC, which was recruited for the conflict resolutions earlier than the two hub regions. These findings suggest that, in social conflict resolutions, the ant-dmPFC selectively recruits one of the resolution-type–specific networks through its interaction with resolution-type–specific hub regions.
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