The medial prefrontal cortex in constructing personality models

Jonathan B. Freeman; Ryan M. Stolier

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2014.09.009

The medial prefrontal cortex in constructing personality models

Jonathan B. Freeman, Ryan M. Stolier

Psychology

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Abstract

A recent study by Hassabis et al. suggests that the brain constructs 'personality models' of other people. When imagining another individual, multi-voxel patterns of fMRI activation in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) contained information about the individual's unique combination of personality traits. The authors propose that, in concert with other regions, the mPFC assembles a model of another's personality that is ultimately used to predict behavior.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	571-572
Number of pages	2
Journal	Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume	18
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2014.09.009
State	Published - Nov 1 2014

Keywords

Impressions
MPFC
Person perception
Personality
Social neuroscience
Traits

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience

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