PMID- 33587038
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220131
LR  - 20240330
IS  - 2050-084X (Electronic)
IS  - 2050-084X (Linking)
VI  - 10
DP  - 2021 Feb 15
TI  - Temporo-parietal cortex involved in modeling one's own and others' attention.
LID - 10.7554/eLife.63551 [doi]
LID - e63551
AB  - In a traditional view, in social cognition, attention is equated with gaze and 
      people track other people's attention by tracking their gaze. Here, we used fMRI 
      to test whether the brain represents attention in a richer manner. People read 
      stories describing an agent (either oneself or someone else) directing attention 
      to an object in one of two ways: either internally directed (endogenous) or 
      externally induced (exogenous). We used multivoxel pattern analysis to examine 
      how brain areas within the theory-of-mind network encoded attention type and 
      agent type. Brain activity patterns in the left temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) 
      showed significant decoding of information about endogenous versus exogenous 
      attention. The left TPJ, left superior temporal sulcus (STS), precuneus, and 
      medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) significantly decoded agent type (self versus 
      other). These findings show that the brain constructs a rich model of one's own 
      and others' attentional state, possibly aiding theory of mind.
CI  - (c) 2021, Guterstam et al.
FAU - Guterstam, Arvid
AU  - Guterstam A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3694-1318
AD  - Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Department of Psychology, 
      Princeton, United States.
AD  - Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
FAU - Bio, Branden J
AU  - Bio BJ
AD  - Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Department of Psychology, 
      Princeton, United States.
FAU - Wilterson, Andrew I
AU  - Wilterson AI
AD  - Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Department of Psychology, 
      Princeton, United States.
FAU - Graziano, Michael
AU  - Graziano M
AD  - Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Department of Psychology, 
      Princeton, United States.
LA  - eng
SI  - figshare/10.6084/m9.figshare.12273128
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20210215
PL  - England
TA  - Elife
JT  - eLife
JID - 101579614
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Attention
MH  - Brain Mapping
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Parietal Lobe/diagnostic imaging/*physiology
MH  - Theory of Mind
MH  - Young Adult
PMC - PMC7884070
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - TPJ
OT  - attention
OT  - awareness
OT  - fMRI
OT  - human
OT  - neuroscience
OT  - self
OT  - theory of mind
COIS- AG, BB, AW, MG No competing interests declared
EDAT- 2021/02/16 06:00
MHDA- 2022/02/01 06:00
PMCR- 2021/02/15
CRDT- 2021/02/15 12:10
PHST- 2020/09/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/02/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/02/15 12:10 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/02/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/02/01 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/02/15 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 63551 [pii]
AID - 10.7554/eLife.63551 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Elife. 2021 Feb 15;10:e63551. doi: 10.7554/eLife.63551.