TY  - JOUR
AU  - Schilbach, L.
AU  - Eickhoff, S. B.
AU  - Cieslik, E.
AU  - Shah, J. N.
AU  - Fink, G. R.
AU  - Vogeley, K.
TI  - Eyes on me: an fMRI study of the effects of social gaze on action control.
JO  - Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
VL  - 6
SN  - 1749-5016
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
M1  - PreJuSER-10796
SP  - 393 - 403
PY  - 2011
N1  - The authors gratefully acknowledge the help with data collection provided by members of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine at the Research Centre Juelich, in particular Barbara Elghahwagi and Dorothe Krug. L. S. was funded by the Koeln Fortune Program/Medical Faculty, University of Cologne and by the Volkswagen Foundation. S. B. E. was funded by the Human Brain Project (R01-MH074457-01A1), the DFG (IRTG 1328) and the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association within the Helmholtz Alliance on Systems Biology (Human Brain Model).
AB  - Previous evidence suggests that 'social gaze' can not only cause shifts in attention, but also can change the perception of objects located in the direction of gaze and how these objects will be manipulated by an observer. These findings implicate differences in the neural networks sub-serving action control driven by social cues as compared with nonsocial cues. Here, we sought to explore this hypothesis by using functional magnetic resonance imaging and a stimulus-response compatibility paradigm in which participants were asked to generate spatially congruent or incongruent motor responses to both social and nonsocial stimuli. Data analysis revealed recruitment of a dorsal frontoparietal network and the locus coeruleus for the generation of incongruent motor responses, areas previously implicated in controlling attention. As a correlate for the effect of 'social gaze' on action control, an interaction effect was observed for incongruent responses to social stimuli in sub-cortical structures, anterior cingulate and inferior frontal cortex. Our results, therefore, suggest that performing actions in a--albeit minimal--social context significantly changes the neural underpinnings of action control and recruits brain regions previously implicated in action monitoring, the reorienting of attention and social cognition.
KW  - Adult
KW  - Attention: physiology
KW  - Cerebral Cortex: physiology
KW  - Cognition: physiology
KW  - Face
KW  - Female
KW  - Fixation, Ocular
KW  - Frontal Lobe: physiology
KW  - Humans
KW  - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
KW  - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
KW  - Male
KW  - Motivation
KW  - Nerve Net: physiology
KW  - Parietal Lobe: physiology
KW  - Reaction Time: physiology
KW  - Recognition (Psychology): physiology
KW  - Social Environment
KW  - Social Perception
KW  - Young Adult
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:20705602
C2  - pmc:PMC3150858
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000293636000001
DO  - DOI:10.1093/scan/nsq067
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/10796
ER  -