Social network size relates to developmental neural sensitivity to biological motion

Kirby, Laura; Moraczewski, Dustin; Warnell, Katherine Rice; Velnoskey, Kayla; Redcay, Elizabeth

doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2018.02.012

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“…More importantly, this study, for the first time, confirmed the positive correlation between interactive BM perception and social competence, especially in older children aged 5–6 years. Although previous studies have found that children's monadic BM processing was related to their social cognitive abilities (He et al, 2018; Rice et al, ) and social competence (Endedijk et al, ; Kirby et al, ; Krogh‐Jespersen et al, ), the current results highlight the potential relation of social interaction perception on children's social development. The finding is consistent with a previous study in which the understanding of interactive actions positively predicted empathizing ability in school‐aged children (Ghanouni et al, ).…”

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confidence: 67%

“…Previous studies have demonstrated that intention inference (e.g., theory of mind, emotion understanding), which rapidly develops during preschool stage, has immense value for young children's effective social adaptation (Denham et al, ; Devine, White, Ensor, & Hughes, ; Peterson & Siegal, ; Slaughter, Dennis, & Pritchard, ). Relevant developmental research focused on action perception involved in monadic PLD BM or real‐world contexts has found that better perception of human BM predicts higher social cognitive ability (e.g., theory of mind; Burnside, Wright, & Poulin‐Dubois, ; He et al, ; Rice, Anderson, Velnoskey, Thompson, & Redcay, ) and superior social competence (e.g., larger social network, better peer cooperation; Endedijk, Meyer, Bekkering, Cillessen, & Hunnius, ; Kirby, Moraczewski, Warnell, Velnoskey, & Redcay, ; Krogh‐Jespersen, Liberman, & Woodward, ). However, despite the ability to perceive the actions of others, precisely interpreting underlying shared intentions and interpersonal relationships in peer interactions may be more important if a child wants to have effective social interactions and to be well accepted.…”

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Development of interactive biological motion perception in preschoolers and its relation to social competence

Zhai

Gao

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Social Development

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The perception of interactive biological motion (BM) plays an important role in social life. Such social perception enables people to understand the underlying social intentions and social relationships in interactive actions, so that they can anticipate the behavior response in an appropriate manner. Although interaction perception has been widely explored in adults, little is known about preschoolers' developmental trajectory of interaction perception and its further impact on social development. This study explored the development of interaction perception in a dyadic BM situation and its relation to teachers' report of social competence among 3–6‐year olds (N = 119). Children were asked to watch videos of dyadic BM and decide whether two characters were interacting or not. The results suggested that the sensitivity of BM perception continues to develop during the entire preschool age period and is positively associated with children's social competence among children aged 5–6, even after controlling for age and language ability. However, for younger children aged 3–4, language ability rather than perception of social interaction positively correlated with their social competence. Our findings review the rapid development of interactive BM perception in early childhood and highlight the important role of interaction perception in preschoolers’ social development.

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Development of interactive biological motion perception in preschoolers and its relation to social competence

Zhai

Gao

et al. 2019

Social Development

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“…The pSTS, on the other hand, has traditionally been associated with the visual perception of biological motion (66)(67)(68)(69) and social interactions (70)(71)(72) , and is considered part of a third visual pathway that is specialized for social information (73).…”

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Neural similarity between mentalizing and live social interaction

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Redcay³

2021

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Reciprocal social interactions are a quintessential part of human life, yet little neuroimaging research has examined the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms using social interactive experimental paradigms. Recent work using social interactive tasks has demonstrated brain activity in the mentalizing network, even in the absence of explicit mentalizing demands, suggesting that social interactive contexts automatically engage mentalizing. However, while overlapping brain activations are suggestive of similar underlying neural processes between explicit mentalizing and spontaneous mentalizing during interaction, they are not a direct test of whether or not these processes are represented similarly in the brain. Pattern-based approaches provide the sensitivity to examine the similarity between different neurocognitive processes. The current study used representational similarity analysis on a task wherein participants made mental and non-mental judgments about an abstract character and a live, social interactive partner during fMRI. The within-subject, 2 (Mental/Non-mental) x 2 (Peer/Character) design enabled us to examine the similarity in response patterns between conditions across numerous brain regions associated with social cognition, and estimate fit to three theoretical models of how the two processes relate: 1) social interaction and explicit mentalizing about an abstract character are represented similarly; 2) interactive peer and abstract character are represented differently regardless of the evaluation type; and 3) mental and non-mental states are represented dissimilarly regardless of target. Results demonstrate that the temporal poles and the right posterior superior temporal sulcus represent mentalizing and peer interactions similarly (Model 1), suggesting that response patterns in these regions provide a link between mentalizing and social interaction. Much of the rest of the social brain exhibits different representations for interactive peers and abstract characters (Model 2). Finally, model-free analyses showed that different regions show sensitivity to either the interaction partner or story character. Together, our findings highlight the importance of studying social cognitive processes using interactive approaches, and the utility of pattern-based approaches in understanding how social cognitive processes relate to each other.

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“…Based on this result, the individual at the center of a network must have a strong ability to identify obscure social signals in order to play a complex social role (Dziura and Thompson, 2014). Accordingly, Kirby et al (2018) investigated neural sensitivity to biological motion related to social network properties in middle childhood. Consistent with the study by Dziura, the children's social network size (the number of people the child regularly sees or talks to), diversity (the number of social roles the child plays) and embeddedness (the number of social domains in which the child is active) predicted activation in the pSTS, which significantly correlated with the neural sensitivity to biological motion when the children viewed biological motion.…”

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“…For example, social network analysis provides a deeper understanding of social complexity by directly measuring the number or types of social relationships. Overwhelming evidence indicates that the complexity of the social network structure is positively correlated with social skills, such as sociability, mentalizing or encoding biological motion (Wey et al, 2008;Kirby et al, 2018;Gentina et al, 2020). Based on a complete map of the asocial network of interaction units, the social network can also describe the source and amount of social influence (e.g., social support, conformity, imitation and compliance) perceived by individuals (Blumen and Verghese, 2018;Bang et al, 2019).…”

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Neurobiological Bases of Social Networks

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A social network is a web that integrates multiple levels of interindividual social relationships and has direct associations with an individual’s health and well-being. Previous research has mainly focused on how brain and social network structures (structural properties) act on each other and on how the brain supports the spread of ideas and behaviors within social networks (functional properties). The structure of the social network is correlated with activity in the amygdala, which links decoding and interpreting social signals and social values. The structure also relies on the mentalizing network, which is central to an individual’s ability to infer the mental states of others. Network functional properties depend on multilayer brain-social networks, indicating that information transmission is supported by the default mode system, the valuation system, and the mentalizing system. From the perspective of neuroendocrinology, overwhelming evidence shows that variations in oxytocin, β-endorphin and dopamine receptor genes, including oxytocin receptor (OXTR), mu opioid receptor 1 (OPRM1) and dopamine receptor 2 (DRD2), predict an individual’s social network structure, whereas oxytocin also contributes to improved transmission of emotional and behavioral information from person to person. Overall, previous studies have comprehensively revealed the effects of the brain, endocrine system, and genes on social networks. Future studies are required to determine the effects of cognitive abilities, such as memory, on social networks, the characteristics and neural mechanism of social networks in mental illness and how social networks change over time through the use of longitudinal methods.

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Social network size relates to developmental neural sensitivity to biological motion

Cited by 12 publications

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Development of interactive biological motion perception in preschoolers and its relation to social competence

Development of interactive biological motion perception in preschoolers and its relation to social competence

Neural similarity between mentalizing and live social interaction

Neurobiological Bases of Social Networks

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