Thinking about seeing: Perceptual sources of knowledge are encoded in the theory of mind brain regions of sighted and blind adults

Cognition

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 65-78

  Koster Hale, Jorie ^a   Bedny, Marina ^b   Saxe, Rebecca ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; Experience; FMRI; Multivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA); Representation; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIVOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS; NERVE POTENTIAL; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THEORY OF MIND; THINKING; VISUAL THRESHOLD; AGED; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; AGED; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; THEORY OF MIND; THINKING; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 84904675149     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.04.006     Document Type: Article

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