Wang Li, Li Ting, Li Xiaoqing, Liu Feilong, Feng Chunliang
Center for Computational Affective Neuroscience and Brain-Computer Interface, Center for Brain and Mental Health Research, Normal College, Jingchu University of Technology, Jingmen, China.
Institute of Brain and Psychological Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China.
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2025 May 29. doi: 10.3758/s13415-025-01312-1.
Justice sensitivity (JS) reflects personal concern and commitment to the principle of justice, showing considerable heterogeneity among the general population. Despite a growing interest in the behavioral characteristics of JS over the past decades, the neurobiological substrates underlying trait JS are not well comprehended. We addressed this issue by employing a machine learning approach to decode the trait JS, encompassing its various orientations, from whole-brain resting-state functional connectivity. We demonstrated that the machine-learning model could decode the individual trait of other-oriented JS but not self-oriented JS from resting-state functional connectivity across multiple neural systems, including functional connectivity between and within parietal lobe and motor cortex as well as their connectivity with other brain systems. Key nodes that contributed to the prediction model included the parietal, motor, temporal, and subcortical regions that have been linked to other-oriented JS. Additionally, the machine learning model can distinctly distinguish between the distinct roles associated with other-oriented JS, including observer, perpetrator, and beneficiary, with key brain regions in the predictive networks exhibiting both similarities and disparities. These findings remained robust using different validation procedures. Collectively, these results support the separation between other-oriented JS and self-oriented JS, while also highlighting the distinct intrinsic neural correlates among the three roles of other-oriented JS: observer, perpetrator, and beneficiary.
正义敏感性(JS)反映了个人对正义原则的关注和承诺,在普通人群中表现出相当大的异质性。尽管在过去几十年里,人们对JS的行为特征越来越感兴趣,但特质JS背后的神经生物学基础尚未得到很好的理解。我们通过采用机器学习方法从全脑静息态功能连接中解码特质JS及其各种取向来解决这个问题。我们证明,机器学习模型可以从包括顶叶和运动皮层之间及内部的功能连接以及它们与其他脑系统的连接在内的多个神经系统的静息态功能连接中解码他人导向性JS的个体特质,但不能解码自我导向性JS。对预测模型有贡献的关键节点包括与他人导向性JS相关的顶叶、运动、颞叶和皮层下区域。此外,机器学习模型可以清楚地区分与他人导向性JS相关的不同角色,包括观察者、作恶者和受益者,预测网络中的关键脑区表现出异同。使用不同的验证程序,这些发现仍然很可靠。总体而言,这些结果支持他人导向性JS和自我导向性JS之间的分离,同时也突出了他人导向性JS的三个角色(观察者、作恶者和受益者)之间不同的内在神经关联。