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[Ed Vessel]

On Apr 26, 2013 11:49 AM, "Ed Vessel" <ed.vessel at nyu.edu> wrote:

> *NYU Center for Brain Imaging*
> Spring 2013 Speaker Series
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> Friday, April 26
> 3 - 4:30pm
> Meyer 815
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> *Speaker: Leor Hackel* (Van Bavel Lab)
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> *Group membership alters mind perception *
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> Faces serve as cues to the presence of social agents, and the tendency to
> infer goals, thoughts, and feelings behind the faces of others - termed
> mind perception - is a reflexive and ubiquitous feature of human social
> cognition. However, the natural human propensity for mind perception may be
> bound by social group membership. We examined neural bases of mind
> perception, and tested how identification with social groups influences
> mind perception. During neuroimaging, participants assessed a continuum of
> morphs along 11 points between human faces and inanimate faces (e.g. dolls)
> described as in-group or out-group members. We regressed the objective
> amount of humanness in each face (i.e., the 11 stimulus points) and the
> subjective judgment of mind (i.e., each subject’s binary responses) on
> BOLD signal. Degree of objective humanness was positively associated with
> activity in medial prefrontal cortex and amygdala, while subjective
> judgment of mind was associated with activity in right temporoparietal
> junction (rTPJ). Additionally, social identity moderated responses to the
> subjective percept of mind in rTPJ . These results suggest dissociable
> neural bases of perception of objective humanness and subjective judgment
> of mind, and suggest that group membership impacts attribution of mental
> content to others.
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> Ed Vessel
> Center for Brain Imaging
> New York University
> ed.vessel at nyu.edu
> 4 Washington Place, Rm. 156
> New York, NY 10003
> http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~vessel
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