The frontal lobes are necessary for 'theory of mind'.

By Donald T. Stuss, G. G. Gallup, M. Alexander. Brain : a journal of neurology, 2001

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A meta-analytic review of verbal fluency performance following focal cortical lesions. (2004, neutral): “For inclusion, the study must also have presented precise statistics convertible to effect size r. Thus, some studies were excluded because it was not possible to calculate effect sizes from the information provided (e.g., Levine et al., 1998; Stuss et al., 1998; Stuss, Gallup, & Alexander, 2001 ) ”
Imaging the Intentional Stance in a Competitive Game (2002, background): “Stuss et al. (2001) also found that patients with frontal lesions had difficulties with mentalizing tasks.”
Are there theory of mind regions in the brain? A review of the neuroimaging literature (2009, background): “For example, both frontal [Bach et al., 1998; Channon and Crawford, 2000; Happe et al., 2001; Rowe et al., 2001; Shamay-Tsoory et al., 2005; Stone et al., 1998; Stuss et al., 2001] and amygdalar damage [Shaw et al., 2004] have been associated with impaired ToM processing.”
The Biology of Trust: Integrating Evidence From Genetics, Endocrinology, and Functional Brain Imaging (2012, background): “This mentalizing process, together with deliberate thinking, is associated with activation in the frontal cortex, in particular in the medial frontal cortex (Amodio & Frith, 2006; Stuss et al., 2001).”
The social brain? (2007, background): “On one hand, several group studies have shown that patients with damage to prefrontal cortex perform badly on mentalizing tasks and that this impairment is independent of problems with traditional executive tasks (Rowe et al. 2001; Stuss et al. 2001; Gregory et al. 2002).”
Neuronal correlates of theory of mind and empathy: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study in a nonverbal task (2006, background): “Impairment in theory of mind has been implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly autism (Frith, 2001a,b), and in patients with certain circumscribed brain injuries (Stuss et al., 2001, Stone et al., 2003).”
Neural correlates of self-reflection. (2002, background): “…has been associated with impaired self-awareness for the appropriateness of social interactions, judgement and planning dif®culties (Prigatano and Schacter, 1991; Stuss, 1991), as well as impaired awareness of the mental states of others (`theory of mind'; Stone et al., 1998; Stuss et al., 2001).”
Social cognition and the brain: A meta‐analysis (2009, background): “Lesion studies with humans have demonstrated that patients with frontal lobe lesions make more mistakes on difficult false belief and deception tasks than patients with other brain lesions, although they make no more errors on the simplest of the false belief tasks [Stuss et al., 2001].”
Dissociable medial prefrontal contributions to judgments of similar and dissimilar others. (2006, background): “Although considerable neuroimaging (Frith and Frith, 1999; Gallagher and Frith, 2003) and neuropsychological (Gregory et al., 2002; Stuss et al., 2001) research has demonstrated that inferences about another’s mental states rely on medial aspects of prefrontal cortex (mPFC), few attempts have been m”
An fMRI study of intentional and unintentional (embarrassing) violations of social norms. (2002, background): “Moreover, there are now several reports of patients with lesions to medial prefrontal cortex who show ToM impairment (Happe et al., 2001; Lough et al., 2001; Stuss et al., 2001; Rowe et al., 2001).”
Self-referential processing in our brain - A meta-analysis of imaging studies on the self (2006, background): “These distinctions seem to reappear in recent concepts of self as discussed in neuroscience (Panksepp, 1998a,b, 2003, 2005b; Damasio, 1999; Gallagher, 2000; Stuss et al., 2001; Churchland, 2002; Kelley et al., 2002; Lambie and Marcel, 2002; LeDoux, 2002; Turk et al., 2002; Damasio, 2003a,b; Gallaghe”
Thinking of mental and other representations: The roles of left and right temporo-parietal junction (2006, background): “The importance of this prefrontal region for ToM is also underlined by studies of patients with lesions in prefrontal areas mostly including medial areas, who had severe problems attributing first- and second-order false beliefs (Rowe, Bullock, Polkey, & Morris, 2001 ), and problems detecting simpl”