Two Takes on the Social Brain: A Comparison of Theory of Mind Tasks

By Maria Ida Gobbini, Aaron C. Koralek, Ronald E. Bryan, Kimberly J. Montgomery, James V. Haxby. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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The reorienting system of the human brain: from environment to theory of mind. (2008, neutral): “Gaze-related activations in STS, however, may not colocalize with those for reorienting or ToM (these functions have not been assessed within the same experiment) (see Gobbini et al., 2007, for a recent meta-analysis).”
Reintegrating the Study of Accuracy Into Social Cognition Research (2011, background): “This dissociation holds up under meta-analytic scrutiny: Studies engaging one system rarely engage the other concurrently (Gobbini, Koralek, Bryan, Montgomery, & Haxby, 2007 ; van Overwalle & Baetens, 2009).”
Innocent intentions: a correlation between forgiveness for accidental harm and neural activity. (2009, background): “…junction (RTPJ) in particular appears to be selective for belief attribution (Aichorn, Perner, Kronbichler, Staffen, & Ladurner, 2005; Fletcher et al., 1995; Gallagher et al., 2000; Gobbini et al., 2007; Perner, Aichorn, Khronblicher, Staffen, & Ladurner, 2006; Saxe & Wexler, 2005).”
Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: A meta-analysis (2009, positive): “…TPJ are strongly overlapping in a 5 to 30 mm z-coordinate zone, we decided to segregate them because the brain areas involved in the mirror tasks of this meta-analysis tend to be more inferior than in the mentalizing tasks (this has also been found within participants, see Gobbini et al., 2007).”
An fMRI Investigation of Spontaneous Mental State Inference for Moral Judgment (2009, methodology): “In the current study, the RTPJ and, to a lesser extent, the PC and the dMPFC regions previously associated with theory of mind (Gobbini et al., 2007; Perner, Aichorn, Kronbichler, Wolfgang, et al., 2006; Saxe & Powell, 2006; Saxe & Wexler, 2005; Saxe & Kanwisher, 2003; Gallagher et al., 2000; Fletch”
Are there theory of mind regions in the brain? A review of the neuroimaging literature (2009, methodology): “, 2004](15) or nonbiological [Gobbini et al., 2007] motion cues to understand the protagonists’ mental state.”
Temporo-parietal Junction Activity in Theory-of-Mind Tasks: Falseness, Beliefs, or Attention (2009, result): “This possibility is also supported by the fact that TB > PH has a peak voxel in the TPJ-L above z = 21, when almost all imaging studies that investigated attribution of intentional actions without perspective differences show activation peaks below that line (Perner & Leekam, 2008; Gobbini, Koralek”
The neural bases of social cognition and story comprehension. (2011, background): “…ToM story judgment Physical causation story judgment PET 6 4 Gallagher et al. (2000) ToM story judgment Physical causation story judgment fMRI 6 5 Gobbini et al. (2007) False belief stories Physical stories fMRI 12 19 Jenkins & Mitchell (2010) ToM stories Non-ToM stories fMRI 15 9 Kobayashi et…”