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The Role of the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Introspection during Verbal Communication

Conversation enables the sharing of our subjective experiences through verbalizing introspected thoughts and feelings. The mentalizing network represents introspection, and successful conversation is characterized by alignment through imitation mediated by the mirror neuron system (MNS). Therefore,...

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Autores principales: Yoshioka, Ayumi, Tanabe, Hiroki C., Nakagawa, Eri, Sumiya, Motofumi, Koike, Takahiko, Sadato, Norihiro
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9856826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36672092
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13010111
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author Yoshioka, Ayumi
Tanabe, Hiroki C.
Nakagawa, Eri
Sumiya, Motofumi
Koike, Takahiko
Sadato, Norihiro
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Tanabe, Hiroki C.
Nakagawa, Eri
Sumiya, Motofumi
Koike, Takahiko
Sadato, Norihiro
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description Conversation enables the sharing of our subjective experiences through verbalizing introspected thoughts and feelings. The mentalizing network represents introspection, and successful conversation is characterized by alignment through imitation mediated by the mirror neuron system (MNS). Therefore, we hypothesized that the interaction between the mentalizing network and MNS mediates the conversational exchange of introspection. To test this, we performed hyperscanning functional magnetic resonance imaging during structured real-time conversations between 19 pairs of healthy participants. The participants first evaluated their preference for and familiarity with a presented object and then disclosed it. The control was the object feature identification task. When contrasted with the control, the preference/familiarity evaluation phase activated the dorso-medial prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, precuneus, left hippocampus, right cerebellum, and orbital portion of the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), which represents introspection. The left IFG was activated when the two participants’ statements of introspection were mismatched during the disclosure. Disclosing introspection enhanced the functional connectivity of the left IFG with the bilateral superior temporal gyrus and primary motor cortex, representing the auditory MNS. Thus, the mentalizing system and MNS are hierarchically linked in the left IFG during a conversation, allowing for the sharing of introspection of the self and others.
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spelling pubmed-98568262023-01-21 The Role of the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Introspection during Verbal Communication Yoshioka, Ayumi Tanabe, Hiroki C. Nakagawa, Eri Sumiya, Motofumi Koike, Takahiko Sadato, Norihiro Brain Sci Article Conversation enables the sharing of our subjective experiences through verbalizing introspected thoughts and feelings. The mentalizing network represents introspection, and successful conversation is characterized by alignment through imitation mediated by the mirror neuron system (MNS). Therefore, we hypothesized that the interaction between the mentalizing network and MNS mediates the conversational exchange of introspection. To test this, we performed hyperscanning functional magnetic resonance imaging during structured real-time conversations between 19 pairs of healthy participants. The participants first evaluated their preference for and familiarity with a presented object and then disclosed it. The control was the object feature identification task. When contrasted with the control, the preference/familiarity evaluation phase activated the dorso-medial prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, precuneus, left hippocampus, right cerebellum, and orbital portion of the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), which represents introspection. The left IFG was activated when the two participants’ statements of introspection were mismatched during the disclosure. Disclosing introspection enhanced the functional connectivity of the left IFG with the bilateral superior temporal gyrus and primary motor cortex, representing the auditory MNS. Thus, the mentalizing system and MNS are hierarchically linked in the left IFG during a conversation, allowing for the sharing of introspection of the self and others. MDPI 2023-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9856826/ /pubmed/36672092 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13010111 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Tanabe, Hiroki C.
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Sumiya, Motofumi
Koike, Takahiko
Sadato, Norihiro
The Role of the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Introspection during Verbal Communication
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9856826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36672092
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13010111
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