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Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience

ISSN 1530-7026

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Decoding representations of personally familiar others in the default mode network

Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience September 28, 2026 Taylor D. Guthrie, Aussie D. Frost, Robert S. Chavez

The human brain's ability to form and maintain rich internal representations of personally familiar others, even in the absence of direct sensory input, is a prominent feature of social cognition. We tested whether the identity of familiar individuals can be decoded from neural activity patterns elicited during internally generated reflection. Using a round-robin fMRI design (N = 113; 20 groups...