The causal role of temporoparietal junction in mediating self-other mergence during mentalizing

心理化 颞顶交界 心理学 功能磁共振成像 认知 心理理论 神经科学 透视图(图形) 社会认知 前额叶皮质 磁刺激 认知心理学 刺激 人工智能 计算机科学
作者
Fang Sun,Tianjun Yang,Ning Liu,Xiaohong Wan
出处
期刊:The Journal of Neuroscience [Society for Neuroscience]
卷期号:43 (49): 8442-8455
标识
DOI:10.1523/jneurosci.1026-23.2023
摘要

Mentalizing is a core faculty of human social behaviors that involves inferring the cognitive states of others. This process necessitates adopting an allocentric perspective and suppressing one's egocentric perspective, referred to as self–other distinction (SOD). Meanwhile, individuals may project their own cognitive states onto others in prosocial behaviors, a process known as self–other mergence (SOM). It remains unclear how the two opposing processes coexist during mentalizing. We here combined functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) techniques with intranasal oxytocin (OT int ) as a probe to examine the SOM effect in healthy male human participants, during which they attributed the cognitive states of decision confidence to an anonymous partner. Our results showed that OT int facilitated SOM via the left temporoparietal junction (lTPJ), but did not affect neural representations of internal information about others' confidence in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, which might be dedicated to SOD, although the two brain regions, importantly, have been suggested to be involved in mentalizing. Further, the SOM effect induced by OT int was fully mediated by the lTPJ activities and became weakened when the lTPJ activities were suppressed by rTMS. These findings suggest that the lTPJ might play a vital role in mediating SOM during mentalizing. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Every human mind is unique. It is critical to distinguish the minds of others from the self. On the contrary, we often project the current mental states of the self onto others; that is to say, self–other mergence (SOM). The neural mechanism underlying SOM remains unclear. We here used intranasal oxytocin (OT int ) as a probe to leverage SOM, which is typically suppressed during mentalizing. We revealed that OT int specifically modulated the left temporoparietal junction (lTPJ) neural activities to fully mediate the SOM effect, while suppressing the lTPJ neural activities by transcranial magnetic stimulations causally attenuated the SOM effect. Our results demonstrate that the lTPJ might mediate SOM during social interactions.
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