The neural and cognitive time course of theory of mind
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Neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies implicate both frontal and temporoparietal cortices when humans reason about the mental states of others. Here, we report an event-related potentials study of the time course of one such "theory of mind" ability: visual perspective taking. The findings suggest that posterior cortex, perhaps the temporoparietal cortex, calculates and represents the perspective of self versus other, and then, later, the right frontal cortex resolves conflict between perspectives during response selection.
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Recent electrophysiological data suggest activity of the posterior parietal cortex relates to calculation and representation of the perspective of others, whereas frontal regions resolve the conflict between self and other perspective when having to respond.
“Further, recent electrophysiological data suggest activity of the posterior parietal cortex to relate the calculation and representation of the perspective of others, whereas frontal regions resolve the conflict between self and other perspective when having to respond (McCleery et al., 2011).”
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- Authors
- McCleery, J. P., Surtees, A. D. R., Graham, K. A., Richards, J. E., & Apperly, I. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- University of South Carolina (US)
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2011-09-07
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 36
- Pages
- 12849-12854
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC3176738
- OpenAlex
- W2041930780
- Cited by
- 134
- References
- 34
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- FWCI
- 15.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R37HD018942)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Keywords
- theory of mind, visual perspective taking, event-related potentials, temporoparietal cortex, right frontal cortex, response selection
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cognition, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Female, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Functional Laterality, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Reaction Time, Recruitment, Neurophysiological, Temporal Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex, Young Adult, Theory of Mind
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