The Effect of Social Interaction on the Neural Correlates of Language Processing and Mentalizing

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dc.contributor.advisorRedcay, Elizabethen_US
dc.contributor.authorRice, Katherine Annen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-24T05:58:58Z
dc.date.available2014-06-24T05:58:58Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractRecent behavioral and neuroscience evidence suggests that studying the social brain in detached and offline contexts (e.g., listening to prerecorded stories about characters) may not capture real-world social processes. Few studies, however, have directly compared neural activation during live interaction to conventional recorded paradigms. The current study used a novel fMRI paradigm to investigate whether real-time social interaction modulates the neural correlates of language processing and mentalizing. Regions associated with social engagement (i.e., dorsal medial prefrontal cortex) were more active during live interaction. Processing live versus recorded language increased activation in regions associated with narrative processing and mentalizing (i.e., temporal parietal junction). Regions associated with intentionality understanding (i.e., posterior superior temporal sulcus) were more active when mentalizing about a live partner. These results have implications for quantifying and understanding the neural correlates of real-world social behavior in typical adults, in developmental populations, and in individuals with social disabilities such as autism.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/15261
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledNeurosciencesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCognitive psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledfMRIen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledlive interactionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsecond-person neuroscienceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsocial cognitionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledspeech processingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtheory of minden_US
dc.titleThe Effect of Social Interaction on the Neural Correlates of Language Processing and Mentalizingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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