The neural time course of evaluating self-initiated joint attention bids

Caruana, Nathan; Lissa, Peter de; McArthur, Genevieve

doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2015.06.001

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“…These investigations have also frequently revealed similar neural activity for gaze and arrow cues, with disruptive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the right temporoparietal junction (TPJ) found to modulate the processing of directional information regardless of the social (i.e., a human avatar) or nonsocial (i.e., an arrow) nature of the stimulus . Some work did show cue‐specific modulation—for example results indicating that social, compared with nonsocial, cues elicit stronger and sometimes even unique effects in neural responses—are more effective in guiding infant object processing and learning, and drive behavioral effects that appear more resistant to volitional control . However, overall, the available evidence suggests that similar processes might be involved in attentional responses elicited by social and nonsocial cues.…”

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How attention gates social interactions

Capozzi

Ristic

2018

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Social interactions are at the core of social life. However, humans selectively choose their exchange partners and do not engage in all available opportunities for social encounters. In this review, we argue that attentional systems play an important role in guiding the selection of social interactions. Supported by both classic and emerging literature, we identify and characterize the three core processes-perception, interpretation, and evaluation-that interact with attentional systems to modulate selective responses to social environments. Perceptual processes facilitate attentional prioritization of social cues. Interpretative processes link attention with understanding of cues' social meanings and agents' mental states. Evaluative processes determine the perceived value of the source of social information. The interplay between attention and these three routes of processing places attention in a powerful role to manage the selection of the vast amount of social information that individuals encounter on a daily basis and, in turn, gate the selection of social interactions.

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Section: The Three Core Processesmentioning

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How attention gates social interactions

Capozzi

Ristic

2018

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…For example, Caruana et al . () reported that the cortical processing of the significance of gaze shifts in adults began, on average, no later than 350 msec after the onset of a gaze shift in an adult sample. This, though, may be much later than any role the eye‐contact effect may play in the time course of joint attention given its estimated 150–170 msec range (Conty et al ., ; as cited in Senju & Johnson, ).…”

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“…As ASD is a neurodevelopmental disorder this observation was one of the first to raise the hypothesis of a common neurological basis for joint attention and social‐cognitive development (Mundy & Neal, ). Fortunately, the very considerable ingenuity of many research groups now makes it possible to begin to empirically examine this hypothesis (e.g., Grossmann et al ., ; Lachat et al ., ; Elison et al ., ; Hopkins et al ., ,b; Caruana et al ., ; Committeri et al ., ; Oberwelland et al ., ).…”

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A review of joint attention and social‐cognitive brain systems in typical development and autism spectrum disorder

Mundy

2017

Eur J of Neuroscience

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This article provides a review of the increasingly detailed imaging literature on the neurodevelopment of joint attention. Many findings from this literature support and inform the hypothesis that the neurodevelopment of joint attention contributes to the functional development of neural systems for human social cognition. Joint attention begins to develop by 5 months of age and is tantamount to the ability to adopt a common perspective with another person. It involves a whole-brain system with nodes in the: (a) dorsal and medial frontal cortex, (b) orbital frontal/insula cortex, (c) anterior/posterior cingulate cortex, (d) superior temporal cortex, (e) precuneus/parietal cortex, and (f) amygdala and striatum. This system integrates triadic information processing about (a) self-attention/action, (b) information about others' attention/action during social interactions that involve, (c) coordinated attention as well as processing a common referent in space. The results of this new imaging literature have the potential to advance current models of social cognition and the social brain, which rarely consider the contribution of the cognitive neurodevelopment of joint attention. The new neuroscience of joint attention is also extremely valuable for clinical research on social-cognitive neurodevelopmental disorders. This is most clearly the case for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) because it is consistent with the hypothesis of substantial functional neurodevelopmental continuity between the preschool impairments of joint attention, and childhood theory of mind ability that characterizes the development of ASD.

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“…showing that experimental manipulations of mind perception enhance the degree to which gaze signals are followed [44,54,55]. In particular, it was shown that interpreting gaze signals as intentional or human-controlled augments sensory processing of stimuli presented at gazed-at locations [54], and increases the social relevance of observed gaze signals [53,55,79,112]. The The current experiment adds to previous findings by localizing the source of top-down modulation of social attention via mind perception to left prefrontal areas, including areas like the ACC and vmPFC.…”

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“…This interpretation would be in line with previous reports showing that social functions within the TPJ are lateralized [17], and that an overlap between attentional orienting and mentalizing is found within the right but not left TPJ [11,127,128]. In contrast, left TPJ lesions have been shown to cause selective deficits in false belief reasoning [89,91], which does require mentalizing but no orientation of In support of this notion, it has been shown that early posterior ERP components like the N170 are sensitive to the intentionality of an agent without being responsive to the congruency or social outcome of its gaze cues [112], whereas later anterior ERP components like the P350 are sensitive to both an agent's intentionality and the congruency of gaze cues [78] (i.e., significant difference in P350 amplitudes for invalid vs. valid trials for human vs. computer-controlled conditions), suggesting that the integration of mind perception related processes and social attention might be instantiated in prefrontal (but not temporo-parietal) areas.…”

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Brain stimulation to left prefrontal cortex modulates mechanisms of social attention

Wiese¹,

Abubshait²,

Azarian³

et al. 2018

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In social interactions, we rely on nonverbal cues like gaze direction to understand the behavior of others. How we react to these cues is determined by the degree to which we believe that they originate from an entity with a mind capable of having internal states and showing intentional behavior, a process called mind perception. While prior work has established a set of neural regions linked to mind perception, research has just begun to examine how mind perception affects social-cognitive mechanisms like gaze processing on a neuronal level. In the current experiment, participants performed a social attention task (i.e., attentional orienting to gaze cues) with either a human or a robot agent (i.e., variation of mind perception), while transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) was applied either to prefrontal or temporo-parietal areas, both regions that have been linked to mind perception in previous studies. The results show that stimulation to temporo-parietal areas did not modulate social attention, neither in response to the human nor the robot agent. In contrast, stimulation to prefrontal areas enhanced attentional orienting in response to hu-man gaze cues and attenuated attentional orienting in response to robot gaze cues. Post-hoc analyses revealed that prefrontal stimulation particularly affected those participants who have followed human gaze more strongly than robot gaze at baseline. These findings suggest that mind perception modulates low-level mechanisms of social cognition via pre-frontal structures, and that a certain degree of mind perception is essential in order to benefit from active stimulation to prefrontal areas.

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The neural time course of evaluating self-initiated joint attention bids

Cited by 25 publications

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How attention gates social interactions

How attention gates social interactions

A review of joint attention and social‐cognitive brain systems in typical development and autism spectrum disorder

Brain stimulation to left prefrontal cortex modulates mechanisms of social attention

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