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The Role of the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Social Interaction: How Low-Level Computational Processes Contribute to Meta-Cognition

Decety, Jean, Lamm, Claus·2007·The Neuroscientist

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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).”
  • 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.”
  • 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

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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)
Venue
The Neuroscientist
Published
2007-12
Volume
13
Issue
6
Pages
580-593
ISSN
  • 1073-8584 (ISSN-L)
  • 1089-4098
OpenAlex
W2105920054
Cited by
1,044
References
60
Citations by year
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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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