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SUBMITTER: Qin P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4814798 | biostudies-other | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Qin Pengmin P Grimm Simone S Duncan Niall W NW Fan Yan Y Huang Zirui Z Lane Timothy T Weng Xuchu X Bajbouj Malek M Northoff Georg G
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20160121 4
Spontaneous activity levels prior to stimulus presentation can determine how that stimulus will be perceived. It has also been proposed that such spontaneous activity, particularly in the default-mode network (DMN), is involved in self-related processing. We therefore hypothesised that pre-stimulus activity levels in the DMN predict whether a stimulus is judged as self-related or not. Participants were presented in the MRI scanner with a white noise stimulus that they were instructed contained t ...[more]