The Organization of the Shared Neural Substrate of Autobiographical, Semantic, and Social Cognition

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Remembering personal past events (autobiographical memory), attributing meaning to memories and external stimuli (semantic cognition), and inferring the thoughts and feelings of others (mentalizing) share a common neural substrate, as demonstrated within participants performing each task (Balgova et al., 2022; Hughes et al., 2024; Tanguay et al., 2023) and in meta-analyses of independent task domains (Balgova et al., 2024; Spreng et al., 2009). However, the intrinsic functional organization of this shared neural substrate remains poorly understood. In this study, we use resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) to examine the shared functional neuroanatomy of these cognitive domains.