Zhang Yu, Ma Chao, Li Haiming, Assumpção Leonardo, Liu Yi
School of Psychology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China.
Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Development, Changchun 130024, China.
iScience. 2024 Nov 23;27(12):111472. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111472. eCollection 2024 Dec 20.
Naive perspective-takers often perceive the social world in a simplistic and uniform way, whereas sophisticated ones recognize the diversity and complexity of others' minds. This commonly accepted distinction points to a possibility of greater inter-individual variability in mentalizing for sophisticated than naive perspective-takers, a difference previously overlooked in research. In the current study, participants were asked to watch a mentalizing-related movie and their neural responses, interpretations of the characters' mental states, and eye-gaze trajectories were recorded. The results provide robust and converging evidence that the neural connectomic features within the mentalizing network, eye-gaze trajectories, and interpretations of others' mental states exhibit greater inter-individual variability among sophisticated perspective-takers compared to naive ones, supporting that sophisticated perspective-takers are more distinctive while naive ones are more similar. These findings deepen our understanding of mentalizing by highlighting the idiosyncrasy and homogeneity of neural collaboration and behavioral manifestations across varying levels of perspective-taking sophistication.
单纯的视角采择者往往以简单、统一的方式看待社会世界，而成熟的视角采择者则认识到他人心理的多样性和复杂性。这种普遍认可的差异表明，与单纯的视角采择者相比，成熟的视角采择者在心理理论化方面个体间差异可能更大，这一差异在以往研究中被忽视了。在当前的研究中，参与者被要求观看一部与心理理论相关的电影，并记录他们的神经反应、对角色心理状态的解读以及目光轨迹。结果提供了有力且一致的证据，表明在心理理论化网络中的神经连接组特征、目光轨迹以及对他人心理状态的解读在成熟的视角采择者中比在单纯的视角采择者中表现出更大的个体间差异，这支持了成熟的视角采择者更具独特性而单纯的视角采择者更相似的观点。这些发现通过强调不同复杂程度的视角采择中神经协作和行为表现的特质性和同质性，加深了我们对心理理论化的理解。
