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Poster Session B: Wednesday, August 13, 1:00 – 4:00 pm, de Brug & E‑Hall

Social Scene Perception in neurotypicals, bvFTD and AI models

Laura Iris Van Hove¹, Elahe Yargholi¹, Laurent Mertens¹, Joost Vennekens¹, Jan Van den Stock¹, Hans Op de Beeck¹; ¹KU Leuven

Presenter: Laura Iris Van Hove

Social-cognitive skills are required to successfully navigate the social world. Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia is a neurodegenerative disorder characterised by a decline in social cognitive capabilities. One theoretical framework proposes that this decline is due to neurodegeneration affecting the way in which social contextual information is processed. Interestingly, preliminary evidence suggests that both bvFTD patients as well as simpler artificial network models display a contextual bias when interpreting a social scene in comparison to neurotypicals and multimodal AI models. We investigated this hypothesis by designing and running a novel social cognitive paradigm in neurotypicals, bvFTD patients and AI models. Our preliminary results in humans show initial support for the hypothesis that bvFTD patients are more influenced by contextual cues than neurotypicals. Further analyses will compare these behavioural findings with AI models.

Topic Area: Reward, Value & Social Decision Making

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