Social training reconfigures prediction errors to shape Self-Other boundaries

The human brain can simulate other people’s mental processes with Self-specific and Other-specific neural circuits, but it is not known how these circuits emerge. Here, the authors show that these circuits adapt to social experience, to determine whether a computation is attributed to Self or Other....

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Main Authors: Sam Ereira, Tobias U. Hauser, Rani Moran, Giles W. Story, Raymond J. Dolan, Zeb Kurth-Nelson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16856-8