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Role of the Prefrontal Cortex (PFC) on Processing the Social Statistical Information: An fMRI Study

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Brain and Health Informatics (BHI 2013)

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The prefrontal cortex is crucial for memory encoding and processing, in which the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) is more involved in semantic and episodic memory, whereas the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) is more related to the associative information processing and social cognition. Social statistical information is a kind of typical associative information with sociality. However, the role of the prefrontal cortex in comprehending the social statistical information remains unknown yet.This study focused on the brain activities of 36 normal subjects in the prefrontal cortex using fMRI while they viewed the social statistical information presented in either visual form as a graph or textual form as a verbal description of the information in the graph. The results showed that the graph and textual tasks consistently activated the anterior and posterior portions of ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC), the dorsal and ventral MPFC. The results suggest that the VLPFC and the MPFC commonly contribute to the social statistical information processing.

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  1. The School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Liaoning ShiHua University, Liaoning, 113001, China

    Mi Li & Haiping Wei

  2. International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100024, China

    Mi Li, Yu Zhou, Pengfei Liu, Xingyu Su, Shengfu Lu & Ning Zhong

  3. Dept. of Life Science and Informatics, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Maebashi-City, 371-0816, Japan

    Ning Zhong

  4. Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, China

    Mi Li, Yu Zhou, Pengfei Liu, Xingyu Su, Shengfu Lu & Ning Zhong

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Li, M. et al. (2013). Role of the Prefrontal Cortex (PFC) on Processing the Social Statistical Information: An fMRI Study. In: Imamura, K., Usui, S., Shirao, T., Kasamatsu, T., Schwabe, L., Zhong, N. (eds) Brain and Health Informatics. BHI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8211. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02753-1_1

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