Making sense of another mind: the role of the right temporo-parietal junction.

By Rebecca Saxe, Anna Wexler. 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Theory of Mind: A Neural Prediction Problem (2013, neutral): “For example, Saxe and Wexler (2005) introduce characters with different social backgrounds, ranging from the mundane (e.g., New Jersey) to the exotic (e.g., a polyamorous cult).”
Are there theory of mind regions in the brain? A review of the neuroimaging literature (2009, background): “These results, therefore, support previous suggestions that the TPJ may play a more central role in ToM than the mPFC [e.g. Saxe and Kanwisher, 2003; Saxe and Powell, 2006; Saxe and Wexler, 2005].”
Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Empathy: Concepts, Circuits, and Genes (2012, methodology): “While according to one view it is the dmPFC (Amodio & Frith, 2006), others have found quite convincing evidence that the right TPJ is the most specific region for representing the mental state of others (Saxe & Wexler, 2005).”
False-belief understanding in infants (2010, positive): “Neuroscience findings suggest that (1) the right temporoparietal junction plays an important role in the false-belief-representation process [30-33]; (2) regions of the anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortex play an important role in the responseselection process [34-37]; and (3) the connections b”
Temporo-parietal Junction Activity in Theory-of-Mind Tasks: Falseness, Beliefs, or Attention (2009, background): “The same can be claimed for the distracting flanker task used by Serences et al. (2005). Although, unlike invalid cues (arrow points to left when target appears on right), flankers (same color as color of target) are not explicitly misinforming that a target is present, but they willy-nilly create t”
Political Neuroscience: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship (2014, background): “, 2006 ; Saxe & Wexler , 2005 ; Spreng , Mar , & Kim , 2009 ) —were more active when participants viewed nonstereotypical targets , such as a Democrat who preferred smaller government or a Republican who supported liberal supreme court judges .”
Contributions of episodic retrieval and mentalizing to autobiographical thought: evidence from functional neuroimaging, resting-state connectivity, and fMRI meta-analyses (2014, positive): “…et al., 2003; Saxe and Powell, 2006; Döhnel et al., 2012), especially when these processes require a participant to integrate present information with prior knowledge about that person to build a coherent model of another’s mind (Saxe and Wexler 2005; Young et al., 2010; Cloutier et al. 2011).”
Neural Correlates of Susceptibility to Group Opinions in Online Word-of-Mouth Recommendations (2015, background): “The right TPJ is shown to be particularly active when considering the mental states of others (Saxe and Kanwisher 2003; Saxe and Wexler 2005).”
Thinking of mental and other representations: The roles of left and right temporo-parietal junction (2006, result): “…caused by prefrontal damage (Rowe et al., 2001), these findings, nevertheless, underline the finding by Saxe and colleagues (Saxe & Kanwisher, 2003; Saxe & Wexler, 2005) that ToM tasks specifically activate the TPJ at the border between the superior temporal and angular gyrus, which is in close…”
An fMRI Investigation of Spontaneous Mental State Inference for Moral Judgment (2009, methodology): “A whole-brain random effects analysis of the data replicated results of previous studies using the same task (Saxe & Wexler, 2005; Saxe & Kanwisher, 2003), revealing a higher BOLD response during belief, as compared with photo stories, in the RTPJ, LTPJ, dMPFC, mMPFC, vMPFC, PC, right temporal…”
The Role of the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Social Interaction: How Low-Level Computational Processes Contribute to Meta-Cognition (2007, background): “…studies indicates that the TPJ is systematically associated with a variety of social cognitive tasks such as perspective-taking (e.g., Ruby and Decety 2003), empathy (e.g., Jackson and others 2006; Lamm and others 2007), and theory of mind (e.g., Lawrence and others 2006; Saxe and Wexler 2005).”
Dissociable medial prefrontal contributions to judgments of similar and dissimilar others. (2006, background): “A recent study by Saxe and Wexler (2005) also included a manipulation that would have likely altered the perceived similarity of targets.”