Congratulations to @lillianbehm.bsky.social, Nick Turk-Browne, and a huge team for putting together this paper (out today) on lessons from a decade of attempts to study awake infants with fMRI:
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Thanks! This does look relevant, I’ll check it out.
Excited to share some new work from the lab at SfN this year! #sfn25
This paper faced the most challenging peer review process I’ve experienced in my career - a years-long journey with numerous submissions - but I’m glad to say that the end product is substantially improved! 11/
We speculate that DN-B and A may both support the core function of constructing internal relational models, but in separate content domains: ToM-like models of familiar people, and cognitive maps of familiar places 10/
Person-preferring areas corresponded closely to DN-B. Place-preferring areas were predominantly observed in DN-A, with responses additionally observed in VIS-P and dATN-A/B (if you’ve already seen our preprint, skip to Fig 4 for these new results) 9/
Areas preferring people or places were functionally connected across frontal, parietal, and temporal cortex, with each system reaching the apex of a unimodal-to-transmodal gradient 8/
These responses were reliably observed across each task context, suggesting for a dissociation based on content domain rather than cognitive process 7/
We found that separate areas of association cortex responded to task conditions involving people or places, respectively 6/
We tested this view with a precision fMRI approach, scanning individuals while performing visual, semantic, and episodic tasks involving familiar people or places, or generic objects 5/
One possibility is that each network supports a distinct cognitive process, such as social cognition and episodic memory. Here we argue for an alternative: the two systems support a common process acting on distinct content domains (people and places) 4/
Recent work has advanced this debate by demonstrating the DMN in fact comprises two separate, interdigitated networks, termed DN-A and B. How should we understand the functional dissociation between these two systems? 3/
We address the longstanding question of how to understanding the function of the "default mode network," which has been argued to support a staggering range of processes - social cognition, long-term memory, internally generated thought, spatial navigation, etc 2/
Thrilled that this work is (finally) out! We argue that the human brain contains parallel systems for understanding people and places.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/
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Great work by @lillianbehm.bsky.social and colleagues on factors that influence successful data collection for infant fMRI! Happy to play a small part in the massive effort that went into collecting these data.
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