Shared understanding is correlated with shared neural responses in the default mode network
Mai Nguyen, Tamara Vanderwal, Uri Hasson preprint
Abstract Humans have a striking ability to infer meaning from even the sparsest and most abstract forms of narratives. At the same time, flexibility in the form of a narrative is matched by inherent ambiguity in the interpretation of it. How does the brain represent subtle, idiosyncratic differences in the interpretation of abstract and ambiguous narratives? In this fMRI study, we scanned...