The Role of the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Social Interaction: How Low-Level Computational Processes Contribute to Meta-Cognition
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Accumulating evidence from cognitive neuroscience indicates that the right inferior parietal cortex, at the junction with the posterior temporal cortex, plays a critical role in various aspects of social cognition such as theory of mind and empathy. With a quantitative meta-analysis of 70 functional neuroimaging studies, the authors demonstrate that this area is also engaged in lower-level (bottom-up) computational processes associated with the sense of agency and reorienting attention to salient stimuli. It is argued that this domain-general computational mechanism is crucial for higher level social cognitive processing. NEUROSCIENTIST 13(6): 580—593, 2007. DOI: 10.1177/1073858407304654
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The anterior cingulate cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, and temporoparietal junction play roles in perspective taking, self-awareness, and more cognitive types of empathy.
“Imaging research has demonstrated that the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) play roles in perspective taking, self-awareness, and in more cognitive types of empathy (Carr et al., 2003;Decety and Lamm, 2007;Nummenmaa et al., 2008).”
From Connecting minds and sharing emotions through mimicry: A neurocognitive model of emotional contagion (2017) · cites this paper as Decety and Lamm, 2007
Decety and Lamm reported that attention tasks produced an average peak activation 10 mm superior to the average peak of Theory of Mind tasks.
“Second, Decety and Lamm [16] recently conducted a meta-analysis of seventy previously published group analyses of attention and Theory of Mind. Again, the authors reported that attention tasks produced an average peak activation 10 mm superior to the average peak of Theory of Mind tasks.”
From Distinct Regions of Right Temporo-Parietal Junction Are Selective for Theory of Mind and Exogenous Attention (2009) · cites this paper as [16]
Biological motion activations have been reported to activate ventral portions of the rTPJ.
“Biological motion activations have been reported to activate ventral portions of the rTPJ”
From Functional Heterogeneity and Convergence in the Right Temporoparietal Junction (2016) · cites this paper as Decety and Lamm 2007
Attention-reorienting activations have been reported to activate superior and anterior regions of the rTPJ.
“attention-reorienting activations have been reported to activate superior and anterior regions of the rTPJ”
From Functional Heterogeneity and Convergence in the Right Temporoparietal Junction (2016) · cites this paper as Decety and Lamm 2007
Theory of Mind tasks have been reported to activate superior and posterior regions of the rTPJ.
“Theory of Mind tasks have been reported to activate superior and posterior regions of the rTPJ”
From Functional Heterogeneity and Convergence in the Right Temporoparietal Junction (2016) · cites this paper as Decety and Lamm 2007
The temporoparietal junction (TPJ) has been repeatedly and reliably found to be implicated in tasks requiring the ability to represent and understand others' perspectives.
“One brain region that has been repeatedly and reliably found to be implicated in tasks requiring the ability to represent and understand others' perspectives is the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) (Decety and Lamm, 2007;Frith and Frith, 2007;Ruby and Decety, 2001;Saxe and Kanwisher, 2003;Young et al., 2010).”
From Linking Brain Structure and Activation in Temporoparietal Junction to Explain the Neurobiology of Human Altruism (2012) · cites this paper as Decety and Lamm, 2007
The TPJ is also involved in more abstract cognitive abilities, such as mind reading, theory of mind and empathy.
“Interestingly, a large body of evidence suggests that the TPJ is also involved in more abstract cognitive abilities, such as mind reading (Saxe & Wexler, 2005), theory of mind (Vogeley & Fink, 2003) and empathy (Decety & Lamm, 2007).”
From Bodily ownership and self-location: Components of bodily self-consciousness (2013) · cites this paper as Decety & Lamm, 2007
There is significant anatomical separation between the target region and the region involved in attentional processing.
“However, there is significant anatomical separation between our target region and the region involved in attentional processing.”
From Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments (2010) · cites this paper as [40]
Two recent studies found that the regions associated with belief attribution and attentional reorienting are separated by 10 mm.
“Two recent studies have found that the regions associated with belief attribution and attentional reorienting are separated by 10 mm (39, 40).”
From Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments (2010) · cites this paper as [40]
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- Authors
- Decety, J., & Lamm, C.
- Affiliations
- Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL,
- University of Chicago (US)
- ORCID
- Lamm, Claus
- Venue
- The Neuroscientist
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2007-12
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 580-593
- ISSN
- 1073-8584 (ISSN-L)
- 1089-4098
- OpenAlex
- W2105920054
- Semantic Scholar
- ccea732469da2a688432f020dbe9c1462c88fc40
- Cited by
- 1,044
- References
- 60
- Citations by year
- 2026: 41 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 38 · 2023: 59 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 62 · 2020: 52 · 2019: 54 · 2018: 52 · 2017: 58 · 2016: 76 · 2015: 72 · 2014: 66 · 2013: 71 · 2012: 59
- FWCI
- 5.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Neuroscientist (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- right temporoparietal junction, social cognition, theory of mind, empathy, sense of agency, attentional reorienting, bottom-up processing, metacognition
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Brain Mapping, Cognition, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Interpersonal Relations, Functional Laterality, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Oxygen, Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobe
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