Cooperation and deception recruit different subsets of the theory-of-mind network.

The term "theory of mind" (ToM) describes an evolved psychological mechanism that is necessary to represent intentions and expectations in social interaction. It is thus involved in determining the proclivity of others to cooperate or defect. While in cooperative settings between two parti...

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Autores principales: Silke Lissek, Sören Peters, Nina Fuchs, Henning Witthaus, Volkmar Nicolas, Martin Tegenthoff, Georg Juckel, Martin Brüne
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:1231f886d05a4fb59d0a124167638a462021-11-25T06:12:43ZCooperation and deception recruit different subsets of the theory-of-mind network.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0002023https://doaj.org/article/1231f886d05a4fb59d0a124167638a462008-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18431500/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203The term "theory of mind" (ToM) describes an evolved psychological mechanism that is necessary to represent intentions and expectations in social interaction. It is thus involved in determining the proclivity of others to cooperate or defect. While in cooperative settings between two parties the intentions and expectations of the protagonists match, they diverge in deceptive scenarios, in which one protagonist is intentionally manipulated to hold a false belief about the intention of the other. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging paradigm using cartoons showing social interactions (including the outcome of the interaction) between two or three story characters, respectively, we sought to determine those brain areas of the ToM network involved in reasoning about cooperative versus deceptive interactions. Healthy volunteers were asked to reflect upon the protagonists' intentions and expectations in cartoons depicting cooperation, deception or a combination of both, where two characters cooperated to deceive a third. Reasoning about the mental states of the story characters yielded substantial differences in activation patterns: both deception and cooperation activated bilateral temporoparietal junction, parietal and cingulate regions, while deception alone additionally recruited orbitofrontal and medial prefrontal regions. These results indicate an important role for prefrontal cortex in processing a mismatch between a character's intention and another's expectations as required in complex social interactions.Silke LissekSören PetersNina FuchsHenning WitthausVolkmar NicolasMartin TegenthoffGeorg JuckelMartin BrünePublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 3, Iss 4, p e2023 (2008)
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Silke Lissek
Sören Peters
Nina Fuchs
Henning Witthaus
Volkmar Nicolas
Martin Tegenthoff
Georg Juckel
Martin Brüne
Cooperation and deception recruit different subsets of the theory-of-mind network.
description The term "theory of mind" (ToM) describes an evolved psychological mechanism that is necessary to represent intentions and expectations in social interaction. It is thus involved in determining the proclivity of others to cooperate or defect. While in cooperative settings between two parties the intentions and expectations of the protagonists match, they diverge in deceptive scenarios, in which one protagonist is intentionally manipulated to hold a false belief about the intention of the other. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging paradigm using cartoons showing social interactions (including the outcome of the interaction) between two or three story characters, respectively, we sought to determine those brain areas of the ToM network involved in reasoning about cooperative versus deceptive interactions. Healthy volunteers were asked to reflect upon the protagonists' intentions and expectations in cartoons depicting cooperation, deception or a combination of both, where two characters cooperated to deceive a third. Reasoning about the mental states of the story characters yielded substantial differences in activation patterns: both deception and cooperation activated bilateral temporoparietal junction, parietal and cingulate regions, while deception alone additionally recruited orbitofrontal and medial prefrontal regions. These results indicate an important role for prefrontal cortex in processing a mismatch between a character's intention and another's expectations as required in complex social interactions.
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author Silke Lissek
Sören Peters
Nina Fuchs
Henning Witthaus
Volkmar Nicolas
Martin Tegenthoff
Georg Juckel
Martin Brüne
author_facet Silke Lissek
Sören Peters
Nina Fuchs
Henning Witthaus
Volkmar Nicolas
Martin Tegenthoff
Georg Juckel
Martin Brüne
author_sort Silke Lissek
title Cooperation and deception recruit different subsets of the theory-of-mind network.
title_short Cooperation and deception recruit different subsets of the theory-of-mind network.
title_full Cooperation and deception recruit different subsets of the theory-of-mind network.
title_fullStr Cooperation and deception recruit different subsets of the theory-of-mind network.
title_full_unstemmed Cooperation and deception recruit different subsets of the theory-of-mind network.
title_sort cooperation and deception recruit different subsets of the theory-of-mind network.
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