Theory of Mind for you, and for me: behavioral and neural similarities and differences in thinking about beliefs of the self and other

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2492-2497

  Gweon, Hyowon ^a   Young, Liane ^a   Saxe, Rebecca R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

belief attribution; DMPFC; fMRI; LTPJ; RTPJ; self reflection; Theory of Mind

Indexed keywords

BELIEF ATTRIBUTION; BRAIN REGIONS; DMPFC; FALSE BELIEFS; FMRI; LTPJ; MENTAL STATE; RTPJ; SELF REFLECTION; THEORY OF MINDS;

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