Temporo-parietal contribution to the mental representations of self/other face
| Autor: | Jean-François Knebel, David Zeugin, Michael Notter, Silvio Ionta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Neural substrate
Cognitive Neuroscience Identity (social science) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Mental rotation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Parietal Lobe Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Brain Mapping Self 05 social sciences Recognition Psychology Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Face Laterality Mental representation Psychology Attribution Facial Recognition Photic Stimulation 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Neurotypical Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Brain and Cognition. 143:105600 |
| ISSN: | 0278-2626 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105600 |
| Popis: | Face recognition requires comparing the current visual input with stored mental representations of faces. Based on its role in visual recognition of faces and mental representation of the body, we hypothesized that the right temporo-parietal junction (rTPJ) could be implicated also in processing mental representation of faces. To test this hypothesis, we asked 30 neurotypical participants to perform mental rotation (laterality judgment of rotated pictures) of self- and other-face images, before and after the inhibition of rTPJ through repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. After inhibition of rTPJ the mental rotation of self-face was slower than other-face. In the control condition the mental rotation of self/other faces was not significantly different. This supports that the role of rTPJ extends to mental representation of faces, specifically for the self. Since the experimental task did not require to explicitly recognize identity, we propose that unconscious identity attribution affects also the mental representation of faces. The present study offers insights on the involvement rTPJ in mental representation of faces and proposes that the neural substrate dedicated to mental representation of faces goes beyond the traditional visual and memory areas. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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