PMID- 35394555 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230106 LR - 20230111 IS - 1863-2661 (Electronic) IS - 1863-2653 (Linking) VI - 228 IP - 1 DP - 2023 Jan TI - Coexistence of the social semantic effect and non-semantic effect in the default mode network. PG - 321-339 LID - 10.1007/s00429-022-02476-z [doi] AB - Neuroimaging studies have found both semantic and non-semantic effects in the default mode network (DMN), leading to an intense debate on the role of the DMN in semantic processes. Four different views have been proposed: (1) the general semantic view holds that the DMN contains several hub regions supporting general semantic processes; (2) the non-semantic view holds that the semantic effects observed in the DMN (especially the ventral angular gyrus) are confounded by difficulty and do not reflect semantic processing per se; (3) the multifunction view holds that the same areas in the DMN can support both semantic and non-semantic functions; and (4) the multisystem view holds that the DMN contains multiple subnetworks supporting different aspects of semantic processes separately. Using an fMRI experiment, we found that in one of the subnetworks of the DMN, called the social semantic network, all areas showed social semantic activation and difficulty-induced deactivation. The distributions of two non-semantic effects, that is, difficulty-induced and task-induced deactivations, showed dissociation in the DMN. In the bilateral angular gyri, the ventral subdivisions showed social semantic activation independent of difficulty, while the dorsal subdivisions showed no semantic effect but difficulty-induced activation. Our findings provide two insights into the semantic and non-semantic functions of the DMN, which are consistent with both the multisystem and multifunction views: first, the same areas of the DMN can support both social semantic and non-semantic functions; second, similar to the multiple semantic effects of the DMN, the non-semantic effects also vary across its subsystems. CI - (c) 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. FAU - Zhang, Guangyao AU - Zhang G AD - CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology. AD - Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. FAU - Hung, Jinyi AU - Hung J AD - Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Mackay Medical College. FAU - Lin, Nan AU - Lin N AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2606-1824 AD - CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, . linn@psych.ac.cn. AD - Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, . linn@psych.ac.cn. LA - eng GR - 31871105/National Natural Science Foundation of China/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220408 PL - Germany TA - Brain Struct Funct JT - Brain structure & function JID - 101282001 SB - IM MH - *Brain Mapping MH - *Default Mode Network MH - Parietal Lobe/physiology MH - Magnetic Resonance Imaging MH - Neuroimaging MH - Brain/diagnostic imaging/physiology MH - Nerve Net/diagnostic imaging/physiology OTO - NOTNLM OT - Angular gyrus OT - Default mode network OT - Difficulty OT - Narrative OT - Social semantic processing OT - Working memory load EDAT- 2022/04/09 06:00 MHDA- 2023/01/07 06:00 CRDT- 2022/04/08 12:11 PHST- 2021/09/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/02/23 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/04/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/01/07 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/04/08 12:11 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s00429-022-02476-z [pii] AID - 10.1007/s00429-022-02476-z [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Brain Struct Funct. 2023 Jan;228(1):321-339. doi: 10.1007/s00429-022-02476-z. Epub 2022 Apr 8.