Me, Myself, and I: Neural Activity for Self versus Other across Development
Paola Zanchi, Jean-Baptiste Ledoux, Eleonora Fornari, Solange Denervaud · 2023
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Description
Paola Zanchi and co-authors scan the brains of children and adults as they view things tied to the self and to others. Their 2023 study asks how the brain's split between self and stranger grows up. Past work had not traced that split across childhood.
Thirty-nine people took part, in four age bands from four-year-olds to adults. Self-tied items lit two brain zones linked to self-thought and fellow feeling. Items tied to an unknown peer lit nine more zones, tied to senses, language, and reading other minds. The maps grew with age, but not in a straight line: in seven-to-ten-year-olds, two zones showed no self-other gap at all, which hints at a phase where the two are handled alike.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Paola Zanchi, Jean-Baptiste Ledoux, Eleonora Fornari, Solange Denervaud |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |