Naeve, Corinna (2025) The Relationship Between Brain Networks Underlying Social Feedback Processing and Self-Reflectiveness. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The processing of self-related social feedback is essential for adaptive functioning in everyday life and is closely linked to self-reflectiveness, a cognitive insight component describing the ability to reflect upon oneself. How individuals react to social feedback may be linked to their level of self-reflectiveness. Here, we hypothesized that brain network activity during social feedback processing differs between healthy individuals with lower versus those with higher self-reflectiveness. Functional MRI data from 58 healthy participants were analyzed during a social feedback task using group independent component analysis (GICA) to identify functional brain networks involved in self-related feedback processing. Eight meaningful components were identified. Of these, five components showed significantly increased activity during self-related compared to other-related feedback processing, comprising regions indicative of a possible self-reflection network including the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), insula, inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), and temporoparietal areas as well as further areas of the visual cortex and cerebellum functionally connected to mPFC areas. Additionally, areas overlapping with the default mode network (DMN) were active during self-related feedback processing, albeit not significantly more active than during other-related processing, suggesting a role of the DMN in general feedback and self-other processing. No significant correlation was found between self- reflectiveness scores and differential activity of brain areas of self-related compared to other- related feedback processing. Future work should examine the correlation between self- reflectiveness and functional connectivity between brain networks of self-related feedback processing to better understand how self-reflectiveness modulates social feedback-related network dynamics. Keywords: social feedback, self-reflectiveness, cognitive insight, fMRI, functional brain networks, independent component analysis (ICA), social cognition
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Larabi, D.I. and Gorlich, K.S. and Koerts, J. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2025 09:10 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2025 09:10 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/5735 |
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