Neuronal correlates of theory of mind and empathy: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study in a nonverbal task

By Birgit A. Völlm, Alexander N. W. Taylor, Paul Richardson, Rhiannon Corcoran, John Stirling, Shane McKie, John Francis William Deakin, Rebecca Elliott. NeuroImage, 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

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Superior Temporal SulcusIt's My Area: Or Is It? (2008, result): “In line with the network assumption, four of the five studies in the ‘‘ToM’’ category (Kobayashi et al., 2007; Voellm et al., 2006; Takahashi et al., 2004; Gallagher et al., 2000) report medial prefrontal activity together with STS activation, whereas STS activity in speech processing was more accom”
Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Empathy: Concepts, Circuits, and Genes (2012, background): “There are now several imaging studies investigating cognitive empathy (Hynes, Baird, & Grafton, 2006; Preston et al., 2007; Schnell, Bluschke, Konradt, & Walter, 2011; Völlm et al., 2006; Walter et al., 2011).”
Mirror Neuron and Theory of Mind Mechanisms Involved in Face-to-Face Interactions: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Approach to Empathy (2007, background): “Functional neuroimaging data on emotional ToM, however, remain scarce (but see Völlm et al., 2006).”
The Enigmatic temporal pole: a review of findings on social and emotional processing. (2007, background): “At least three studies have reported activations in the temporal pole while inferring the emotional state of others (Farrow et al., 2001; Carr et al., 2003; Vollm et al., 2006).”
Two systems for empathy: a double dissociation between emotional and cognitive empathy in inferior frontal gyrus versus ventromedial prefrontal lesions. (2009, background): “While neuroimaging studies to date have been increasingly capable of characterizing the neural networks involved in emotional and cognitively based empathy (Hynes et al., 2006; Vollm et al., 2006; Schulte-Ruther et al., 2007), only lesion studies can examine directly whether emotional empathy is ‘ne”
A Hierarchy of Temporal Receptive Windows in Human Cortex (2008, background): “…study), have been reported to be involved in theory of mind: the capacity to discern the beliefs, desires, and goals of others and to predict their actions (Fletcher et al., 1995; Gallagher et al., 2000; Gallagher and Frith, 2003; Saxe and Kanwisher, 2003; Saxe et al., 2004; Vollm et al., 2006).”
The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment (2008, positive): “One such region, the TPJ—a key node in the distributed TOM network (Decety and Lamm, 2007; Gallagher and Frith, 2003; Saxe and Kanwisher, 2003; Vollm et al., 2006)—might be predicted to serve this function during legal decision-making given recent evidence of its role in attributing mental beliefs…”
Ventromedial prefrontal volume predicts understanding of others and social network size (2011, background): “Furthermore, both medial orbitofrontal cortex and medial prefrontal gyrus have been shown to respond selectively to mentalizing about emotional states (Vollm et al., 2006; Walter et al., 2004), a capacity which might reasonably be expected to impact upon one's ability to maintain close friendships.”
The Common Neural Basis of Autobiographical Memory, Prospection, Navigation, Theory of Mind, and the Default Mode: A Quantitative Meta-analysis (2009, neutral): “( 2006 ) ToM cartoon judgement Physical causality cartoon judgment fMRI 13 13 Walter et al.”
Theory of Mind and Preference Learning at the Interface of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and AI: A Review (2022, background): “Similarly, Völlm et al. (2006) showed that aﬀective ToM tasks were associated with activation of the paracingulate, ACC, PCC and the amygdala.”
Is emotional contagion special? An fMRI study on neural systems for affective and cognitive empathy (2008, background): “The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been associated in both theory of mind and empathy processing (Gallagher and Frith, 2003) and a recent study (Vollm et al., 2006) directly comparing brain networks for theory of mind and empathy found that activation in a medial part of the BA 8 was activated…”