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You and your kin: Neural signatures of family-based group perception in the subgenual cortex

Attachment to one's kin as an in-group emerges from a fundamental human motivation and is vital for human survival. Despite important recent advances in the field of social neuroscience, the neural mechanisms underlying family-related in-group perception remain obscure. To examine the neural ba...

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Autores principales: Rüsch, Nicolas, Bado, Patricia, Zahn, Roland, Bramati, Ivanei E., de Oliveira-Souza, Ricardo, Moll, Jorge
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4047618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24802255
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2014.912676
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author Rüsch, Nicolas
Bado, Patricia
Zahn, Roland
Bramati, Ivanei E.
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Moll, Jorge
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description Attachment to one's kin as an in-group emerges from a fundamental human motivation and is vital for human survival. Despite important recent advances in the field of social neuroscience, the neural mechanisms underlying family-related in-group perception remain obscure. To examine the neural basis of perceiving family-related in-group boundaries in response to written kinship scenarios, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging in 27 healthy adults and obtained self-report ratings of family-related entitativity, which measures to what degree participants perceive their family as a coherent and distinct group in society. We expected that activity in the subgenual cingulate cortex and septo-hypothalamic region would track individual differences in entitativity. Perceiving one's family as a distinct and cohesive group (high entitativity) was associated with increased subgenual cortex response to kinship scenarios. The subgenual cingulate cortex may represent a key link between kin-related emotional attachment and group perception, providing a neurobiological basis for group belongingness.
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spelling pubmed-40476182014-06-18 You and your kin: Neural signatures of family-based group perception in the subgenual cortex Rüsch, Nicolas Bado, Patricia Zahn, Roland Bramati, Ivanei E. de Oliveira-Souza, Ricardo Moll, Jorge Soc Neurosci Research Article Attachment to one's kin as an in-group emerges from a fundamental human motivation and is vital for human survival. Despite important recent advances in the field of social neuroscience, the neural mechanisms underlying family-related in-group perception remain obscure. To examine the neural basis of perceiving family-related in-group boundaries in response to written kinship scenarios, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging in 27 healthy adults and obtained self-report ratings of family-related entitativity, which measures to what degree participants perceive their family as a coherent and distinct group in society. We expected that activity in the subgenual cingulate cortex and septo-hypothalamic region would track individual differences in entitativity. Perceiving one's family as a distinct and cohesive group (high entitativity) was associated with increased subgenual cortex response to kinship scenarios. The subgenual cingulate cortex may represent a key link between kin-related emotional attachment and group perception, providing a neurobiological basis for group belongingness. Taylor & Francis 2014-05-07 2014-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4047618/ /pubmed/24802255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2014.912676 Text en © 2014 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. http://www.informaworld.com/mpp/uploads/iopenaccess_tcs.pdf This is an open access article distributed under the Supplemental Terms and Conditions for iOpenAccess articles published in Taylor & Francis journals (http://www.informaworld.com/mpp/uploads/iopenaccess_tcs.pdf) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This is an Open Access article. Non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way, is permitted. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted.
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You and your kin: Neural signatures of family-based group perception in the subgenual cortex
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title_short You and your kin: Neural signatures of family-based group perception in the subgenual cortex
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4047618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24802255
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2014.912676
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