Cognitive and affective theory of mind share the same local patterns of activity in posterior temporal but not medial prefrontal cortex

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1175-1184

  Corradi Dell'Acqua, Corrado ^a,b   Hofstetter, Christoph ^a,b   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b University Medical Center   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emotional coding; Mentalizing; Multivariate pattern analysis; Perspective taking; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEORY OF MIND; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NARRATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PAIN; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEORY OF MIND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889670778     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nst097     Document Type: Article

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