The Role of the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Social Interaction: How Low-Level Computational Processes Contribute to Meta-Cognition

By Jean Decety, Claus Lamm. The Neuroscientist, 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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The Social Neuroscience of Empathy (2009, background): “Carr, L., Iacoboni, M., Dubeau, M.-C., et al. (2003).”
An fMRI Investigation of Spontaneous Mental State Inference for Moral Judgment (2009, result): “These results agreed precisely with a recent meta-analysis of 70 published studies that also found that the attention region is 10 mm superior to the region involved in theory of mind (Decety & Lamm, 2007).”
On the relationship between the “default mode network” and the “social brain” (2012, neutral): “Indeed, there is an ongoing debate on whether activations in the TPJ related to theory of mind and those related to other cognitive processes, such as attentional switching are in the same or different cortical areas (Decety and Lamm, 2007; Mitchell, 2008; Scholz et al., 2009).”
Understanding Others: Brain Mechanisms of Theory of Mind and Empathy (2008, background): “…(for other relevant overviews from the fields of social neuroscience and psychology, see Batson, 1987, 2009; Batson et al., 1987; Decety and Jackson, 2004; Decety and Lamm, 2007; Eisenberg and Fabes, 1990; Hoffman, 2000; Keysers and Gazzola, 2006, 2007; Preston and de Waal, 2002; Wispe, 1986).”
What gets the attention of the temporo-parietal junction? An fMRI investigation of attention and theory of mind. (2010, neutral): “However, a subsequent study, using higher resolution imaging a bootstrap analysis, found a small but reliable separation between the peaks of these two functional regions in higher resolution images (Scholz et al., 2009), consistent with evidence from a recent meta-analysis (Decety & Lamm, 2007).”
An fMRI study of violations of social expectations: When people are not who we expect them to be (2011, neutral): “Themedial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and temporoparietal junction (TPJ) appear to be the central components of a constellation of brain regions supporting social cognition (Adolphs, 2009; Amodio and Frith, 2006; Decety and Lamm, 2007; Spreng et al., 2009).”
Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: A meta-analysis (2009, neutral): “• Mentalizing and attention (reorienting) studies from the metaanalysis by Decety and Lamm (2007).”
How is our self related to midline regions and the default-mode network? (2011, background): “…and retrieving memories (Cavanna and Trimble, 2006; Gusnard and Raichle, 2001; Wagner et al., 2005) and the TPJ and the temporal pole in mind reading and social cognition (Decety and Lamm, 2007; Frith and Frith, 2006; Moriguchi et al., 2006; Van Overwalle, 2009; Van Overwalle and Baetens, 2009).”
Investigating the Functional Heterogeneity of the Default Mode Network Using Coordinate-Based Meta-Analytic Modeling (2009, methodology): “ALE has been used to investigate the reliability of results in many studies of healthy brain function (Decety and Lamm, 2007; Costafreda et al., 2008; Chan et al., 2009; Soros et al., 2009) and mental disorders (Menzies et al., 2008; Minzenberg et al., 2009; Ragland et al.,…”
The posterior superior temporal sulcus is sensitive to the outcome of human and non-human goal-directed actions. (2011, background): “However, the involvement of the pSTS in studies of both goal representation and attentional reorienting to unexpected events suggests that a common cognitive process, such as comparing internal predictions with actual events, may underlie both of these tasks (Decety and Lamm, 2007; Mitchell, 2008).”
Theory of Mind and Empathic Explanations of Machiavellianism (2013, background): “, Deluga, 2001; Hawley, 2003; Wilson et al., 1996). On the other hand, other researchers posit that Machiavellians are emotionally detached from other people (e.g., Cooper & Peterson, 1980; Deluga, 2001, p. 342) and show unempathic characteristics (e.g., Mc Ilwain, 2003). Recent research has directl”
In the Eye of the Beholder: Individual Differences in Perceived Social Isolation Predict Regional Brain Activation to Social Stimuli (2009, methodology): “Activation of the TPJ has been associated with tasks involving theory of mind (Saxe & Kanwisher, 2003), inferences of social intentions (Ciaramidaro et al., in press; Decety & Grezes, 2006), attentional reorienting (Decety & Lamm, 2007), and the sense of agency (Decety & Lamm, 2007).”
Ventromedial prefrontal volume predicts understanding of others and social network size (2011, background): “These include regions of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) (Gallagher and Frith, 2003), temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) (Saxe and Kanwisher, 2003), superior temporal sulcus (STS) (Frith and Frith, 2003), and frontal pole (FP) (Decety and Lamm, 2007; Gallagher et al., 2000; Saxe, 2006; Saxe et al.,”
Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain-behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind (2015, neutral): “In contrast, activation peaks in the ToM related ventral TPJ may serve similar self-other distinction in the cognitive domain (Decety and Lamm, 2007).”
The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment (2008, neutral): “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…”
The neural bases of social cognition and story comprehension. (2011, background): “A similar debate exists for the TPJ, with some arguing for a unique role in mental inference and others proposing a more general role related to the direction of attention (Decety & Lamm 2007, Mitchell 2008b, Saxe & Powell 2006, Scholz et al. 2009).”
Neural activity that predicts subsequent memory and forgetting: A meta-analysis of 74 fMRI studies (2011, result): “Consistent with this finding, evidence suggests the right TPJ is more critically involved in reorienting attention, and, possibly, in self-referential processing, than the left TPJ is (for reviews, see Corbetta et al., 2008; Decety and Lamm, 2007).”