Join this interactive session as Yizhou Lyu, Zishan Su, and Yuan Chang Leong discuss their paper, “Hostile Attribution Bias Shapes Neural Synchrony in the Left Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex during Ambiguous Social Narratives”, with JNeurosci Reviewing Editor Daniela Schiller. Attendees can submit questions at registration and live during the webinar.
Below is the significance statement of the paper published on February 28, 2024, in JNeurosci and authored by Yizhou Lyu (吕奕洲), Zishan Su (苏紫杉), Dawn Neumann, Kimberly L. Meidenbauer, and Yuan Chang Leong (梁元彰)
Inferring the intentions from behavior is crucial for adaptive social functioning. A predisposition toward interpreting intentions as hostile is a significant predictor of interpersonal conflict and aggressive tendencies. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy, we found that individual differences in hostile attribution bias shaped neural synchrony in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex while processing real-world social situations. Additionally, we were able to distinguish between participants with high and low hostile attribution bias from their neural activity. These results reveal how subjective interpretations of social situations are influenced by hostile attribution bias and reflected in the temporal dynamics of brain activity. Our findings lay the groundwork for future studies aimed at understanding the neurobiological basis of sociocognitive biases and interventions that mitigate these biases.
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