Topic: mentalizing

Intergenerational transfer effects describe the transmission of traits, skills, or biology from parents to their offspring. Through genetic and environmental influences parents, for example, impact their children’s ability for perspective-taking (i.e., mentalizing), which is linked to an individuals’ healthy social functioning. Mentalizing is supported by a network of brain regions, including bilateral temporoparietal junction, precuneus, and prefrontal cortex. The neural correlates reflecting on parent-child similarity have yet to be studied. Here, we describe task-based functional connectivi

Mentalizing, the ability of perspective-taking, underlies individuals’ healthy social functioning and is supported by a core brain network, including temporoparietal and prefrontal regions. Evidence suggests similar brain regions to be recruited during mentalizing already in early childhood (Fehlbaum et al.,2022), but the changes of functional correlates in correspondence to neural network formation (i.e., functional connectivity (FC)) have yet to be tested. Here we report data from 81 typically developing children (6-14 y, mean=10.06 y; 29 girls) who completed CAToon (Borbás et al.,2020), an

The success of Large Language Models (LLM) has led to controversial hypotheses about emergent intelligence beyond language competence, amongst which Theory of Mind (ToM) has become the most debated. While some reported gpt-4 to pass the Sally-Anne test, others reported limitations. Here we aim to validate LLM ability to recognise ToM occurrences in natural human dialogue using the activity of ToM-associated brain regions.The current analysis uses an existing corpus of 25 participants recorded with functional MRI while carrying conversations in 4 sessions x 6 trials alternating a Human and a Ro

Childhood maltreatment (CM), with its subtypes sexual, physical and emotional abuse or neglect, is highly prevalent in our society and may have specific, long-lasting effects on the function and structure of the adult brain depending on the type of maltreatment. This study aims to characterize the neurocognitive profile of individuals with a history of childhood emotional abuse (EA) - a CM subtype, which has previously been neglected, but is amongst the most prevalent of CM subtypes and exhibits a strong association with chronic depressive symptoms in adulthood. Previous theories and findings