title: The medial prefrontal cortex in constructing personality models.
abstract: A recent study by Hassabis et al. suggests that the brain constructs 'personality models' of other people. When imagining another individual, multi-voxel patterns of fMRI activation in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) contained information about the individual's unique combination of personality traits. The authors propose that, in concert with other regions, the mPFC assembles a model of another's personality that is ultimately used to predict behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, USA. Electronic address: jon.freeman@nyu.edu.
authors.forename: Jonathan B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Freeman
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, USA.
authors.forename: Ryan M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Stolier
mesh_terms: D059907:Functional Neuroimaging; D006179:Gyrus Cinguli / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D012938:Social Perception; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology
keywords: impressions; mPFC; person perception; personality; social neuroscience; traits