People thinking about thinking people: The role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind”

Humans powerfully and flexibly interpret the behaviour of other people based on an understanding of their minds: that is, we use a “theory of mind.” In this study we distinguish theory of mind, which represents another person’s mental states, from a representation of the simple presence of another p...

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Published in:NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Fla.), 2003-08, Vol.19 (4), p.1835-1842
Main Authors: Saxe, R, Kanwisher, N
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Awareness - physiology
Brain Mapping
Cognition & reasoning
Dominance, Cerebral - physiology
EBA
Experiments
Facial Expression
False belief
fMRI
Humans
Image Enhancement
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Interpersonal Relations
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Mentalising
Nerve Net - physiology
Oxygen - blood
Parietal Lobe - physiology
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
Problem Solving - physiology
Social cognitive neuroscience
Social Perception
Solar system
Speech Perception
Studies
Superior temporal sulcus
Temporal Lobe - physiology
Thinking - physiology
Visual Cortex - physiology
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