Topic: perspective-taking

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

Purpose; We wanted to investigate how brain activation patterns of patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) differs from that of the neurotypicals (NT) in the context of perspective- taking for pain situations, and how these characteristics are related to the interoceptive accuracy of patients with ASD. Method; We presented the ASD group (N=17) and NT group (N=20) with pain-related visual situations during the fMRI scan, and ordered them 1) to imagine as if the subjects themselves were experiencing those pain situations (Self-perspective), or 2) to imagine as if a third party was experienc

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