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August 27, 2026Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceOpen Access

Social Mind at Rest: Resting-State Connectivity Associated with Social Thought Relates to Friendship Quality

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YWYi-Sheng WongJYJunhong Yu

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Neuroimaging study uncovers links between resting-state social thought connectivity and friendship quality in healthy adults, suggesting spontaneous cognition supports adaptive social functioning.

Key Points

  • To determine how latent dimensions of spontaneous resting-state thought relate to adaptive functioning, behavioral outcomes, and specific patterns of resting-state functional connectivity.
  • Assessed resting-state thought patterns in 130 healthy adults using exploratory factor analysis on the New York Cognition Questionnaire.
  • Performed vertex-wise analyses and network-based statistics on resting-state fMRI scans alongside partial Pearson correlations controlling for age and sex.
  • Identified seven thought dimensions, showing that Social Cognition and Interpersonal Reflection were positively associated with friendship quality.
  • Demonstrated that Social Cognition was linked to resting-state functional connectivity between the default mode and ventral attention networks, with network strength predicting friendship quality.

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Wong et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8fea1c10c91c1e9262226ahttps://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsag069
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