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Meeting of Minds: The medial frontal cortex and social cognition by David M. Amodio & Chris D. Frith (2006). Nature Reviews: Neuroscience, 7, 268-277. Medial Frontal cortex: 3 divisions Orbital (orMFC): BA 14 & 25 Anterior (arMFC): BA 10 & 32 Posterior (prMFC): 24,9 & 8.
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Meeting of Minds: The medial frontal cortex and social cognition by David M. Amodio & Chris D. Frith (2006). Nature Reviews: Neuroscience, 7, 268-277. Medial Frontal cortex: 3 divisions Orbital (orMFC): BA 14 & 25 Anterior (arMFC): BA 10 & 32 Posterior (prMFC): 24,9 & 8
Social cognition: all the processes that deal with knowledge of the self, perceptions of others including their internal somatic and mental states, and interpersonal motivations • Functional divisions of MFC • Pr MFC: Evaluating social consequences of one’s actions • Ar MFC: Self knowledge, person perception, mentalizing • oMFC: Evaluating social consequences of outcomes (outcomes are broader than actions; one may highly value and outcome, such as getting a raise, but devalue the action required for the outcome such as kissing up to the boss).
prMFC: evaluating social consequences of one’s actions • Action monitoring, error correction, conflict monitoring between intentions/actions • Assessment of actions against desires, values, and goals. • Self-selected actions more so than directed ones
arMFC: Self knowledge, person perception, mentalizing • Evaluation of self-related traits • Monitoring of one’s emotional state • Thinking about others: as others become more familiar activation tends to move more to the front (anterior-orbital) of arMFC • Theory of mind: attributing mental states to others
oMFC: Evaluating social consequences of outcomes • Evaluates and prioritizes outcomes of actions/situations • Rates reward value of stimuli and responses • Deals with outcome itself, rather than outcomes of actions. • Focus on degree of regret in various outcomes
Studies with pain perception suggest that as activation moves more forward pain is less tied to sensory inputs and interpreted more abstractly. • Anterior activation also found when making judgments about reputation of other’s and self