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Me, Myself, and I: Neural Activity for Self versus Other Across Development
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: Received: 19 October 2023 / Approved: 20 October 2023 / Online: 20 October 2023 (13:44:36 CEST)
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Zanchi, P.; Ledoux, J.-B.; Fornari, E.; Denervaud, S. Me, Myself, and I: Neural Activity for Self versus Other across Development. Children 2023, 10, 1914. Zanchi, P.; Ledoux, J.-B.; Fornari, E.; Denervaud, S. Me, Myself, and I: Neural Activity for Self versus Other across Development. Children 2023, 10, 1914.
Abstract
Although adults and children differ in self-versus-other perception, the developmental perspective on this discriminative ability is missing. We compared neural activation of self-vs-others in 39 participants of 4 different age groups (4 yo. to adulthood). Two brain regions, the MCC and right postcentral gyrus, exhibited respectively non-linear and gradual gains in discriminative abilities for self-vs-others stimuli. These regions play critical roles in self-referential processing, empathy, and social cognition. Nine brain regions showed linear increase for others-vs-self stimuli. These regions are associated with multisensory processing, somatosensory skills, complex visual stimuli, self-awareness, empathy, theory of mind, and social recognition. Understanding the neural basis of self-vs-others discrimination during development can inform when and how social contexts support learning processes during childhood and adolescence.
Keywords
Self-versus-other perception; Social cognition; Development of Neural activit; Social processing
Subject
Social Sciences, Cognitive Science
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