PMID- 23175678
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20141118
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1749-5024 (Electronic)
IS  - 1749-5016 (Print)
IS  - 1749-5016 (Linking)
VI  - 9
IP  - 3
DP  - 2014 Mar
TI  - The role of the medial prefrontal cortex in social categorization.
PG  - 292-6
LID - 10.1093/scan/nss135 [doi]
AB  - Group membership is an important aspect of our everyday behavior. Recently, we 
      showed that existing relevant in-group labels increased activation in the medial 
      prefrontal cortex (MPFC) compared with out-group labels, suggesting a role of the 
      MPFC in social categorization. However, the question still remains whether this 
      increase in MPFC activation for in-group representation is solely related with 
      previous experience with the in-group. To test this, we randomly assigned 
      participants to a red or blue team and in a subsequent functional magnetic 
      resonance imaging experiment they categorized red and blue team words as 
      belonging to either the in-group or the out-group. Results showed that even under 
      these minimal conditions increased activation was found in the MPFC when 
      participants indicated that they belonged to a group, as compared with when they 
      did not. This effect was found to be associated with the level of group 
      identification. These results confirm the role of MPFC in social categorization.
FAU - Molenberghs, Pascal
AU  - Molenberghs P
AD  - School of Psychology, McElwain Building, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, 
      Queensland 4072, Australia. p.molenberghs@uq.edu.au.
FAU - Morrison, Samantha
AU  - Morrison S
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Randomized Controlled Trial
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20121121
PL  - England
TA  - Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci
JT  - Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
JID - 101288795
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Brain Mapping
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/methods
MH  - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MH  - Male
MH  - Photic Stimulation/methods
MH  - Prefrontal Cortex/*physiology
MH  - Reaction Time
MH  - *Social Identification
MH  - Young Adult
PMC - PMC3980807
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - fMRI
OT  - group membership
OT  - social categorization
OT  - social identity
OT  - social neuroscience
EDAT- 2012/11/24 06:00
MHDA- 2014/11/19 06:00
PMCR- 2015/03/01
CRDT- 2012/11/24 06:00
PHST- 2012/11/24 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/11/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/11/19 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2015/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - nss135 [pii]
AID - 10.1093/scan/nss135 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2014 Mar;9(3):292-6. doi: 10.1093/scan/nss135. Epub 
      2012 Nov 21.