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Article Dans Une Revue Cerebral Cortex Communications Année : 2022

Functional connectivity of the medial prefrontal cortex related to mindreading abilities

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The medial prefrontal cortex is a key region of mindreading belonging to the mentalizing system, a set of brain areas underlying mental state inference based on reasoning on social concepts. The aim of this study was to characterize the functional connectivity between regions involved in mindreading, and to highlight the processes it underpins, focusing on the dorsal and ventral parts of the medial prefrontal cortex. We analysed resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging of 56 healthy volunteers, to study the relationship between mindreading abilities and functional connectivity of the medial prefrontal cortex. Cognitive mindreading performances were correlated with connectivity between the medial prefrontal cortex and frontal regions involved in the regulation of the salience of one's own mental contents, with a distinction between the dorsal part connected to regions subtending inhibition processes and the ventral part to emotional regions. Affective mindreading performances were negatively correlated with negative connectivity of the ventro-and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex with sensorimotor regions belonging to the mirror neuron system subtending the simulation of mental states. These findings suggested a role of the medial prefrontal cortex to decrease the salience of one's own mental content and in the antisynchronous interaction between the mentalizing and mirror neurons systems.
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inserm-03753703 , version 1 (18-08-2022)

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Marine Le Petit, Francis Eustache, Joy Perrier, Vincent de La Sayette, Béatrice Desgranges, et al.. Functional connectivity of the medial prefrontal cortex related to mindreading abilities. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 2022, 3, ⟨10.1093/texcom/tgac032⟩. ⟨inserm-03753703⟩
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