Making sense of another mind: The role of the right temporo-parietal junction

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1391-1399

  Saxe, Rebecca ^a,b   Wexler, Anna ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution; Simulation; Social cognitive neuroscience; Theory of Mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; SIMULATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THEORY; THINKING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 21244461827     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.02.013     Document Type: Article

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