Theory of Mind brain regions are sensitive to the content, not the structural complexity, of belief attributions

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3356-3361

  Koster Hale, Jorie ^a   Saxe, Rebecca R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

False Belief; fMRI; Language; Theory of Mind

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; GROUP THEORY;

BRAIN REGIONS; FALSE BELIEFS; FMRI; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MENTAL STATE; SOCIAL CONTENTS; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; THEORY OF MINDS; TWO-DIMENSIONS;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

EID: 84875845964     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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