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Social priors and mentalizing connectivity across autistic and schizotypal traits. 自闭症和分裂型特征的社会先验和心智连接。

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Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsag033

Xin Tuo, Han-Yu Zhou, Yi Wang

{"title":"Social priors and mentalizing connectivity across autistic and schizotypal traits.","authors":"Xin Tuo, Han-Yu Zhou, Yi Wang","doi":"10.1093/scan/nsag033","DOIUrl":"10.1093/scan/nsag033","url":null,"abstract":"Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) both involve social-cognitive difficulties but may rely on opposite predictive mechanisms. Predictive-coding and diametrical accounts propose weak priors in ASD versus strong priors in SSD. We tested whether autistic and positive schizotypal traits differentially shape the use of social priors when interpreting ambiguous social cues. Two studies with non-clinical adults employed an adapted Animated Triangles Task (ATT) with three cueing conditions: Random-Uncued, Random-Cued, and ToM-Cued. Study 1 (n = 71) assessed behavior; Study 2 (n = 45) combined behavioral data with task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), including region-of-interest (ROI) and psychophysiological interaction (PPI) analyses of the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), and cerebellar Crus II. Social-attribution ratings increased across conditions, confirming the cueing manipulation. At the uncorrected level, higher positive schizotypal traits were associated with greater social attribution without cues, whereas higher autistic traits were associated with lower intention ratings despite strong cues. ToM-Cued trials activated the mentalizing network. Both trait dimensions showed exploratory associations with reduced mentalizing-network connectivity. These preliminary findings suggest potentially shared neural patterns coupled with divergent behavioral responses across the autism-psychosis trait continuum, pending further validation with larger sample sizes and adjusted statistical analyses.","PeriodicalId":94208,"journal":{"name":"Social cognitive and affective neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13215086/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147857936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Functional gradient variations in different neuroticism levels and its correlation with cell type-specific transcriptional signatures. 不同神经质水平的功能梯度变化及其与细胞类型特异性转录特征的相关性。

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Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsag035

Jing Li, Xinrong Li, Ruiting Li, Jing Luo, Yong Xu, Guanqun Yao

{"title":"Functional gradient variations in different neuroticism levels and its correlation with cell type-specific transcriptional signatures.","authors":"Jing Li, Xinrong Li, Ruiting Li, Jing Luo, Yong Xu, Guanqun Yao","doi":"10.1093/scan/nsag035","DOIUrl":"10.1093/scan/nsag035","url":null,"abstract":"Neuroticism is significantly associated with various psychiatric disorders. Individuals exhibiting high levels of neuroticism are more susceptible to experiencing anxiety, depression, and other negative emotional responses. Research on the differences in macroscopic functional connectivity gradients among neuroticism levels and their associations with microscopic transcriptomics remains scarce. This study explores the associations between functional gradient and transcriptional expression in neuroticism across 109 individuals with low neuroticism (LNG) and 210 with medium-high neuroticism (MHNG). We analyzed functional gradient alterations in MHNG and their correlations with neurotransmitters, meta-analytic cognitive terms, and transcriptional patterns using partial least squares regression (PLS), involving similarity with major psychiatric disorders, functional enrichments, developmental stages, cortical layers, and specific cell types. MHNG exhibited functional gradient changes within the default, limbic, and visual networks, which correlated with higher-order cognitive terms and alterations in several neurotransmitters. We identified significant overlaps between PLS1 weighted genes and those dysregulated in schizophrenia and autism. Genes linked with gradient alterations were enriched in synaptic signaling, infection and metabolism, astrocytes, specific cortical layers, and developmental phases from early fetal to young adulthood. These findings offer a critical theoretical foundation for understanding the complex relationship between macroscopic functional gradients and microscopic transcriptional patterns across various neuroticism levels.","PeriodicalId":94208,"journal":{"name":"Social cognitive and affective neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13226060/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147857926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dynamic gaze processing: robust N170 for direct gaze and task-dependent N2pc effects. 动态注视处理：直接注视和任务依赖的N2pc效应的鲁棒N170。

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Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsag038

Nicolas Burra, Océane Lauret

{"title":"Dynamic gaze processing: robust N170 for direct gaze and task-dependent N2pc effects.","authors":"Nicolas Burra, Océane Lauret","doi":"10.1093/scan/nsag038","DOIUrl":"10.1093/scan/nsag038","url":null,"abstract":"Eye gaze is a central cue for human social interaction, yet it remains debated whether its effects on perception and attention are automatic or shaped by context. Using EEG across three experiments, we examined how dynamic gaze influences early perceptual encoding (N170) and later attentional selection (N2pc). Participants viewed pairs of faces whose eyes shifted either toward them (gaze toward the observer) or further away (gaze away) while the other closed the eyes. The relevance of eye contact varied across tasks. Across Experiments 1 and 2, gaze toward consistently elicited larger N170 amplitudes than gaze away, independent of context, indicating robust early encoding of eye contact. In contrast, N2pc amplitudes were flexibly modulated: strongest when gaze was task-relevant, reduced when participants judged spatial direction. Cross-experiment analyses confirmed a graded decrease in gaze-related N2pc effects, while N170 remained stable. Finally, in Experiment 3, N170 and N2pc effects were absent when gaze was irrelevant. These results reveal a two-stage process in dynamic gaze perception: an early, context-independent perceptual encoding and a later, task-dependent attentional selection. The findings refine the Fast-Track Modulator Model by demonstrating that gaze processing is perceptually robust but attentionally flexible, indicating that gaze effects are conditional rather than automatic.","PeriodicalId":94208,"journal":{"name":"Social cognitive and affective neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13256080/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148007538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Delaying rewards reduces egoism bias during prosocial acts. 延迟奖励减少亲社会行为中的利己主义偏见。

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Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsag030

Guanglong Liu, Wendeng Yang, Ya Zheng

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Safety-relevant experience reshapes neural codes for ambiguous threat in adolescents. 安全相关经验重塑青少年模糊威胁的神经编码。

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Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsag053

Yubing Zhang, Marta I Garrido, Jacob M Paul, Sarah M Tashjian

{"title":"Safety-relevant experience reshapes neural codes for ambiguous threat in adolescents.","authors":"Yubing Zhang, Marta I Garrido, Jacob M Paul, Sarah M Tashjian","doi":"10.1093/scan/nsag053","DOIUrl":"10.1093/scan/nsag053","url":null,"abstract":"Visually threatening stimuli often carry ambiguous meanings. For example, a gun can be used against an individual as a threat or on their behalf as protection. Experience with such ambiguous stimuli can reshape their neural representations. Yet little is known about how this reorganization unfolds during adolescence, when neural circuits supporting flexible contextual processing are still maturing. This study created a safety-relevant context in which visually threatening stimuli (animals, weapons) acquired meanings related to personal safety, with animals signaling danger and weapons conferring protection. Using 7 T fMRI, we measured neural responses in 33 adolescents (MAge = 14.88 years, 19 females) during passive viewing before (pre-task) and after (post-task) the safety experience. At post-task, protection stimuli elicited greater activation in regions associated with contextual updating and memory retrieval, whereas threat stimuli showed more restricted changes. Both stimulus types showed greater pre-task activation in regions supporting visual processing and stimulus-driven attention, consistent with heightened vigilance toward novel stimuli. Multivoxel pattern classification analysis indicated representational updating for both protection and threat, and convergent neural patterns for stimuli matched in safety value at post-task. These findings provide a framework for understanding how threatening stimuli can be neurally updated as signals of safety following relevant experience.","PeriodicalId":94208,"journal":{"name":"Social cognitive and affective neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13385340/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148475156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Emotional information recruits specific neural dynamics to support hierarchical cognitive control. 情绪信息招募特定的神经动力学来支持层次认知控制。

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Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsag051

Wenquan Zhang, Xinyao Li, Zimeng Li, Pinrong Chen, Bo Zhang, Xiaoya Liu, Shuang Liu, Dong Ming

{"title":"Emotional information recruits specific neural dynamics to support hierarchical cognitive control.","authors":"Wenquan Zhang, Xinyao Li, Zimeng Li, Pinrong Chen, Bo Zhang, Xiaoya Liu, Shuang Liu, Dong Ming","doi":"10.1093/scan/nsag051","DOIUrl":"10.1093/scan/nsag051","url":null,"abstract":"Hierarchical cognitive control supports flexible behavior guided by abstract goals; however, how emotional information modulates the underlying neural dynamics across hierarchy levels remains unclear. To fill this gap, we designed emotional and non-emotional hierarchical cognitive control paradigms, with hierarchical demands manipulated by varying abstraction levels of task rules. Forty-one participants performed the experiment, with electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracking data simultaneously recorded. By aligning EEG with eye-tracking data through time-locked analyses, we characterized oscillatory dynamics at each hierarchy level, integrating single-frequency (power spectral density, PSD) and cross-frequency (phase-amplitude coupling, PAC) features. Results showed that increasing hierarchical demands enhanced PSD across multiple frequency bands in both emotional and non-emotional contexts. Both contexts also exhibited enhanced narrowband delta-beta PAC with increasing abstraction. Importantly, emotional hierarchical demands additionally elicited PAC patterns beyond those in non-emotional contexts, such as delta-alpha and alpha-beta couplings. Topographical clustering revealed that emotion-related PAC activity predominated in fronto-parietal and temporo-occipital regions. These findings suggest that while the brain utilizes general neural dynamics for processing abstract goals, emotional demands recruit additional neural resources to support it. Beyond elucidating how the brain integrates affect with abstract cognitive events, this study offers potential neurodynamic signatures and intervention targets for affective and cognitive disorders.","PeriodicalId":94208,"journal":{"name":"Social cognitive and affective neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13561526/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148311112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Humanness as social normativity: neural evidence that humanized faces align with gender schemas. 人性作为社会规范：人性化面孔与性别图式一致的神经证据。

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Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsag036

Fangfang Wen, Yiyan Ju, Yatian Lei, Xierzhati Abulaiti, Min Hu, Bin Zuo

{"title":"Humanness as social normativity: neural evidence that humanized faces align with gender schemas.","authors":"Fangfang Wen, Yiyan Ju, Yatian Lei, Xierzhati Abulaiti, Min Hu, Bin Zuo","doi":"10.1093/scan/nsag036","DOIUrl":"10.1093/scan/nsag036","url":null,"abstract":"Perceptions of humanness are deeply intertwined with social norms, yet the specific theoretical link between humanness and gender normativity, a primary form of social normativity, remains insufficiently understood. Across four studies (N = 686), we investigated whether humanized faces are implicitly processed as more gender-normative. Study 1 (n = 400) revealed that higher humanness ratings predicted stronger femininity evaluations for female faces and stronger masculinity evaluations for male faces. Study 2 (n = 161), employing a drawing projective test, demonstrated that highly humanized mental prototypes exhibited more gender-typed traits. In Study 3 (n = 92), mouse-tracking revealed that lower Maximum Deviation (MD), an indicator of greater decisional certainty, was linked to evaluations consistent with gender schemas. Study 4 (n = 25) provided electrophysiological evidence: in masculinity-evaluation tasks, low-humanness female faces elicited enhanced N170 and LPP amplitudes, indicating increased structural encoding and motivated attention. In femininity-evaluation tasks, low-humanness faces evoked larger P300, suggesting counter-stereotypic processing. Collectively, these findings demonstrate that humanness perception reinforces gender normativity, as reflected in distinct neural signatures.","PeriodicalId":94208,"journal":{"name":"Social cognitive and affective neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13379625/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148240881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Empathic concern for violators modulates victims' evaluation of third-party punishment outcomes: behavioral and electroencephalography evidence. 对违法者的共情关注调节受害者对第三方惩罚结果的评价：行为和脑电图证据。

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Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsag080

Weihan Wang, Yinling Zhang, Rongrong Chen, Hao Zheng, Xiaoqin Mai

{"title":"Empathic concern for violators modulates victims' evaluation of third-party punishment outcomes: behavioral and electroencephalography evidence.","authors":"Weihan Wang, Yinling Zhang, Rongrong Chen, Hao Zheng, Xiaoqin Mai","doi":"10.1093/scan/nsag080","DOIUrl":"10.1093/scan/nsag080","url":null,"abstract":"When fairness conflicts with empathy-induced altruism, victims often reduce punishment to protect violators' welfare. Whether this influence extends to outcome evaluations when punishment is implemented by third parties remains unclear. We combined an adapted Third-Party Dictator Game with electroencephalography to address this. Participants received unfair allocations from violators and evaluated third-party punishment (TPP) outcomes. Empathic concern was induced by portraying violators as being in need. Behaviorally, victims in the empathy (vs. non-empathy) condition rated no-punishment and partial-punishment outcomes as more appropriate but complete-punishment outcomes as less appropriate. Partial-punishment outcomes received the highest ratings in the empathy condition, reflecting a balance between protecting violators' welfare and restoring fairness. Neurally, partial-punishment outcomes induced smaller P2 amplitudes in the empathy (vs. non-empathy) condition, suggesting lower motivational salience because they better matched victims' goals. No-punishment outcomes induced larger late positive potential amplitudes in the empathy (vs. non-empathy) condition, reflecting sustained processing of their affective and motivational significance. Parietal alpha suppression was weaker in the empathy (vs. non-empathy) condition, indicating reduced sustained attention to TPP outcomes. Together, these findings suggest that empathic concern shapes victims' evaluations of third-party norm-enforcement outcomes, extending its influence beyond contexts in which the empathizing individual also implements punishment.","PeriodicalId":94208,"journal":{"name":"Social cognitive and affective neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13657424/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149066790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Social value orientation modulates fairness decision-making in empathic contexts: evidence from event-related potentials and neural oscillations. 社会价值取向调节共情情境下的公平决策：来自事件相关电位和神经振荡的证据。

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Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsag003

Jiwen Chen, Rongrong Chen, Xinmu Hu, Yu Zhang, Xiaoqin Mai

{"title":"Social value orientation modulates fairness decision-making in empathic contexts: evidence from event-related potentials and neural oscillations.","authors":"Jiwen Chen, Rongrong Chen, Xinmu Hu, Yu Zhang, Xiaoqin Mai","doi":"10.1093/scan/nsag003","DOIUrl":"10.1093/scan/nsag003","url":null,"abstract":"Fairness is essential for balancing interests and mitigating social conflict. People's rejection of unfairness is influenced by contextual factors (e.g. empathic concern) and individual traits including social value orientation (SVO). This study examines how individuals with different SVOs make trade-offs between empathic concern and fairness without involving their own interests. Participants played a modified ultimatum game, in which they made decisions on behalf of either a beneficiary of a public welfare project (empathy) or a stranger (non-empathy), choosing whether to accept or reject allocation offers. Results showed that empathy increased participants' tolerance for unfair offers, particularly among prosocials, who accepted more disadvantageous offers than proselfs did. EEG results showed that proselfs exhibited reduced N1 amplitudes in empathic conditions, reflecting attentional avoidance. Moreover, in the empathy condition, an unfairness-related MFN was observed only in proselfs. The absence of this typical MFN response in prosocials provides neural evidence for their active downregulation of unfairness aversion to prioritize the interests of empathic targets. In addition, prosocials showed stronger parietal-occipital alpha suppression and reduced P3 amplitude in empathy contexts, indicating heightened attentional arousal and greater allocation of cognitive resources. These findings highlight the crucial role of empathic concern and SVO in fairness decision-making.","PeriodicalId":94208,"journal":{"name":"Social cognitive and affective neuroscience","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12948933/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147319393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Correction to: Do stress hormones influence choice? A systematic review of pharmacological interventions on the HPA axis and/or SAM system. 修正：压力荷尔蒙会影响选择吗？对下丘脑轴和/或SAM系统的药物干预的系统回顾。

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Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsag055

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