Interplay Between the Salience and the Default Mode Network in a Social-Cognitive Task Toward a Close Other
Frontiers in Psychiatry February 7, 2022 Cátia Ribeiro da Costa, Jose M. Soares, Patrícia Oliveira-Silva et al.
Social cognition relies on two main subsystems to construct the understanding of others, which are sustained by different social brain networks. One of these social networks is the default mode network (DMN) associated with the socio-cognitive subsystem (i.e., mentalizing), and the other is the salience network (SN) associated with the socio-affective route (i.e., empathy). The DMN and the SN...