Coupled neural timescales in social interaction (opens in new tab)

Social interactions require integrating information across multiple timescales, yet the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We review evidence suggesting that intrinsic neural timescales (INTs) may be a key mechanism enabling this integration, with the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) serving as a critical hub during social interactions. INTs form a cortical hierarchy for multiscale temporal processing, and differences in this hierarchy are linked to social impairments across neuropsyc...