Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: The ability to evaluate others' errors makes it possible to learn from their mistakes without the need for first-hand trial-and-error experiences. Here, we compared functional magnetic resonance imaging activation to self-committed errors during a computer game to a variety of errors committed by others during movie clips (e.g., figure skaters falling down and persons behaving inappropriately). While viewing errors by others there was activation in lateral and medial temporal lobe structures, posterior cingulate cortex, precuneus, and medial prefrontal cortex possibly reflecting simulation and storing for future use alternative action sequences that could have led to successful behaviors. During both self- and other-committed errors activation was seen in the striatum, temporoparietal junction, and inferior frontal gyrus. These areas may be components of a generic error processing mechanism. The ecological validity of the stimuli seemed to matter, since we largely failed to see activations when subjects observed errors by another player in the computer game, as opposed to observing errors in the rich real-life like human behaviors depicted in the movie clips.
Source: Scientific Reports
DOI: 10.1038/srep18714
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,690
Funders: Academy of Finland, Aalto-Yliopisto, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Awards: G1530141537, G2149022975, Mentoring and Research on Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia, G2605672050, G2816413868, G4740785760, Spatiotemporal Brain Imaging of Human Auditory Cognition, G5757969898, Dynamic imaging of oscillatory brain networks controlling selective attention, Spatiotemporal Imaging of Human Visual System Processing, Multimodal Studies of Executive Function Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders, G8179695460, Anatomical/functional parcellation of human auditory cortex with 7T MRI, Spatiotemporal dynamics of contextual processing in schizophrenia
OpenAlex ID: W2317850396