Are there theory of mind regions in the brain? A review of the neuroimaging literature

By Sarah J. Carrington, A. Bailey. Human Brain Mapping, 2009

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

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Social functioning in major depressive disorder. (2016, positive): “Findings from a review of imaging studies investigating the neural correlates of ToM indicate that there are several „„core‟‟ regions which support the ToM reasoning (Carrington and Bailey, 2009).”
Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Empathy: Concepts, Circuits, and Genes (2012, background): “These studies usually show activation of the PMC, the TPJ, the STS, the anterior temporal poles, and the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) (Carrington & Bailey, 2009).”
Medical image analysis with artificial neural networks (2010, methodology): “A comprehensive survey in this topic can be referred to in [49], [50] and [70].”
The neural bases of social cognition and story comprehension. (2011, background): “…temporal sulcus (STS), temporal poles, and amygdala (e.g., Adolphs 2003, 2009; Allison et al. 2000; Beer & Ochsner 2006; Blakemore et al. 2004; Carrington & Bailey 2009; Decety & Chaminade 2003; Decety & Somerville 2003; C.D. Frith & Frith 1999; U. Frith & Frith 2001, 2003; Gallagher & Frith…”
The development of emotion regulation: an fMRI study of cognitive reappraisal in children, adolescents and young adults. (2012, background): “While increasing attention has been paid to reappraisal in adults, little is known about how this adaptive ability develops over the course of adolescence.”
Theory of Mind and Neurodevelopmental Disorders of Childhood (2011, background): “Although the findings are heterogeneous, recent neuroimaging studies demonstrate a network that links the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and temporal cortex including the temporal poles and temporoparietal junction, and the precuneus as the neural substrate of intuitive mentalizing (113).”
The neurobiology of language beyond single words. (2014, background): “Although the exact role of all the individual ToM regions is not yet clearly established, both mPFC and right TPJ constitute core regions in ToM tasks (Carrington & Bailey 2009).”
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews (2010, background): “Furthermore, human subjects watching other persons yawn s ehaviour (Saxe et al., 2004; Carrington and Bailey, 2009): the bilateral posterior c t al., 2005), or the bilateral ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC, Nahab et al., 2 However, there is to our knowledge no systematic investigaion that…”
Neuronal correlates of altered empathy and social cognition in borderline personality disorder (2011, positive): “Areas for cognitive empathy, i.e., the inferring of others' mental states, which is also referred to as Theory of Mind include in particular the superior temporal gyrus andmedial prefrontal cortex (for reviews see e.g. Carrington and Bailey, 2009; Frith and Frith, 2005).”
The Neural Bases for Empathy (2011, background): “This suggests that empathy to pain is, at least in part, an automatic, bottom-up process and perhaps an evolved adaptation.”
Characterising the spatial and oscillatory unfolding of Theory of Mind in adults using fMRI and MEG (2022, background): “These networks included regions that are classically involved in ToM studies (Carrington and Bailey, 2009).”