Common brain areas engaged in false belief reasoning and visual perspective taking: A meta-analysis of functional brain imaging studies

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Schurz, Matthias ^a   Aichhorn, Markus ^a   Martin, Anna ^a   Perner, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

False belief; Neuroimaging meta analysis; Temporo parietal junction; Theory of mind; Visual perspective taking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN REGION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LEFT MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL COGNITION; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 84888084167     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00712     Document Type: Article

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