Seeing other minds: Attributed mental states influence perception
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A current consensus views social perception as a bottom-up process in which the human brain uses social signals to make inferences about another's mental state. Here we propose that, contrary to this model, even the most basic perceptual processing of a social stimulus and closely associated automatic responses are modulated by mental-state attribution. We suggest that social perception is subserved by an interactive bidirectional relationship between the neural mechanisms supporting basic sensory processing of social information and the theory-of-mind system. Consequently, processing of a social stimulus cannot be divorced from its representation in terms of mental states. This hypothesis has far-reaching implications for our understanding of both the healthy social brain and characteristic social failures in psychopathology.
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This interactive process should modulate automatic imitation, but there is no obvious reason why it would modulate spatial compatibility effects.
“Whereas this interactive process should modulate automatic imitation (Teufel et al., 2010), there is no obvious reason why it would modulate the effects of spatial compatibility.”
From Is automatic imitation a specialized form of stimulus–response compatibility? Dissociating imitative and spatial compatibilities (2012) · cites this paper as Teufel et al., 2010
The perception of others' movements is influenced by a bidirectional process involving bottom-up processing of sensory information and top-down processing of mental states.
“This sort of evidence was recently reviewed by Teufel, Fletcher, and Davis (2010) who concluded that the perception of others' movements is influenced by a bidirectional process involving bottom-up processing of sensory information as well as top-down processing of mental states.”
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- Authors
- Teufel, C., Fletcher, P. C., & Davis, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Teufel, Christoph
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-08
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 376-382
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2047215624
- Cited by
- 199
- References
- 65
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 25 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 18 · 2012: 13
- FWCI
- 2.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (064351)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Keywords
- mental state attribution, social perception, theory of mind, bottom-up processing, top-down modulation, automated response, social signals, social cognition, psychopathology
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Humans, Models, Psychological, Orientation, Perception, Social Perception, Theory of Mind
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