The default mode network and social understanding of others: what do brain connectivity studies tell us
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2014 Wanqing Li, Xiaoqin Mai, Chao Liu 469 citations
The Default Mode Network (DMN) has been found to be involved in various domains of cognitive and social processing. The present article will review brain connectivity results related to the DMN in the fields of social understanding of others: emotion perception, empathy, theory of mind, and morality. Most of the reviewed studies focused on healthy subjects with no neurological and psychiatric...