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

NeuroImage

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1835-1842

  Saxe, R ^a   Kanwisher, N ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

EBA; False belief; fMRI; Mentalising; Social cognitive neuroscience; Superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THEORY; THINKING;

EID: 0042925635     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00230-1     Document Type: Article

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