A region of right posterior superior temporal sulcus responds to observed intentional actions.

By Rebecca Saxe, D. Xiao, G. Kovács, David I. Perrett, Nancy Kanwisher. 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Theory of Mind: A Neural Prediction Problem (2013, positive): “The posterior STS responds more when the person reappears later than expected than when the person emerges at the predicted time; when the person is replaced with a passively gliding object, there is no effect of the time lag (Saxe et al., 2004).”
The reorienting system of the human brain: from environment to theory of mind. (2008, neutral): “However, some ToM studies have included controls for this factor (Saxe et al., 2004), and some ToM and reorienting studies have not involved manipulations of expectation (Saxe and Powell, 2006; Serences et al.”
Neural mechanisms of understanding rational actions: middle temporal gyrus activation by contextual violation. (2011, background): “One might argue that the most nonrational condition, which elicited the strongest fMRI response in the present study as in other studies (Saxe et al. 2004; Brass et al. 2007; de Lange et al. 2008), would also be the condition most affected in terms of attention.”
Perception of human motion. (2007, background): “Even more compelling are the results of Saxe et al. (2004), in which the same visible action was seen in different contexts that changed the implied intentions of the actor.”
Mechanisms of social cognition. (2012, background): “Monitoring own actions (Miele et al. 2011) Monitoring others’ actions (Pelphrey et al. 2004, Saxe et al. 2004) Monitoring others’ trustworthiness (Behrens et al. 2008) Monitoring others’ generosity (Cooper et al. 2010) Monitoring influence on others (Hampton et al. 2008) 4.”
Social cognition in humans. (2007, positive): “Activity in the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) is elicited by action observation [38] and when reading intentions from actions [40, 41 ].”
Specificity of Action Representations in the Lateral Occipitotemporal Cortex (2006, background): “In contrast, fMRI studies have generally found bilateral or right-lateralized activity when subjects view actions (Saxe et al., 2004; Kable et al., 2002; Grossman et al., 2000).”
Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: A meta-analysis (2009, neutral): “…has taken a different route by focusing mainly on tasks that involve the representation of the mental states of others, such as " false belief " tasks which test whether children and adults can hold in their mind a belief about another person that is different from their own (Saxe et al., 2004a).”
Understanding interpersonal action coordination: an fMRI study (2011, background): “…movements (Allison et al. 2000; Puce and Perrett 2003), and studies have shown that the activation of the right pSTS is greater while viewing contextincongruent (or unexpected) actions than context-congruent (or expected) ones (Pelphrey et al. 2004; Saxe et al. 2004; Vander Wyk et al. 2009).”