Uniquely human social cognition.

By Rebecca Saxe. 2006

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

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Theory of Mind: A Neural Prediction Problem (2013, neutral): “The problem is exacerbated because these brain regions, and functions, may be uniquely human (Saxe, 2006; Santos et al., 2006).”
Live face-to-face interaction during fMRI: a new tool for social cognitive neuroscience (2010, neutral): “…regions will include those involved in reasoning about another person's actions or intentions and representing another's mental state, including dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (dMPFC), right posterior superior temporal sulcus (rpSTS), and right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) (review, Saxe 2006).”
Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds (2008, neutral): “The uniquely human biological specializations associated with language (see Pinker & Jackendoff 2005), ToM (see Saxe 2006), and complex causal reasoning (see Johnson- Frey 2004) – to take only the most obvious candidates – are clearly much more multifarious than a domain-general capacity for…”
Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Empathy: Concepts, Circuits, and Genes (2012, background): “These authors have argued that the role of the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) in ToM is more general, namely that it is involved in presenting triadic relations, for instance, an observer, an observed and an object (Saxe, 2006).”
Reintegrating the Study of Accuracy Into Social Cognition Research (2011, neutral): “Mitchell, 2008a, 2009a; Olsson & Ochsner, 2008 ; Saxe, 2006 ; Saxe et al, 2004 ; Zaki & Ochsner, 2011b ).”
The Social Bayesian Brain: Does Mentalizing Make a Difference When We Learn? (2014, background): “In particular, previous neuroscientific studies have demonstrated that specific neural systems are activated when performing classical ToM tasks [45,46] and during recursive thinking in games [22,47–50].”
The Default Network and Social Cognition (2015, background): “Key structures within the dorsomedial subsystem, including the dmPFC and TPJ, are widely appreciated for their role in mentalizing (Frith & Frith, 2003; Lieberman, 2007; Mar, 2011; Saxe, 2006; Schilbach, Eickhoff, Rotarska-Jagiela, Fink, & Vogeley, 2008).”
Cues of working together fuel intrinsic motivation (2014, background): “Further, specific brain regions seem to be devoted to representing triadic relationships between the self, others, and a task (Saxe, 2006).”
Insights from the application of computational neuroimaging to social neuroscience. (2013, background): “[16] therefore extended the fictive learning algorithm to incorporate the effect an opponent’s predictions of ones own actions has on their action selection, endowing the agent with a ‘secondorder’ mental state representation [3,36].”
The neural bases of social cognition and story comprehension. (2011, background): “This approach is not likely to satisfy other researchers who believe that story-based investigations of ToM are a necessary part of understanding the process of mental-inference, however (Saxe 2006b).”
Regulation of the Neural Circuitry of Emotion by Compassion Meditation: Effects of Meditative Expertise (2008, background): “The right lateralization of pSTS is in accordance with previous work on social cognition [9,18].”
Contributions of episodic retrieval and mentalizing to autobiographical thought: evidence from functional neuroimaging, resting-state connectivity, and fMRI meta-analyses (2014, background): “…and volitional forms of mentalizing, including reflecting on one’s own mental states (reviewed in Frith and Frith, 2003; Ochsner and others, 2004; Saxe, 2006; Beer and Ochsner, 2006; Lieberman, 2007; Gilbert et al., 2007; Schilbach et al., 2008; Van Overwalle, 2009; Van Overwalle, 2009; Spreng…”
Imaging brain development: The adolescent brain (2012, background): “Frith has proposed that the dMPFC is involved in the necessary decoupling of mental states from physical reality, whereas the pSTS/TPJ is involved in predicting what movement a conspecific is about to make (Frith, 2007; although see Saxe, 2006, for alternative viewpoint).”
Superior Temporal SulcusIt's My Area: Or Is It? (2008, methodology): “We chose these functional categories because they were prominently linked to the STS in review papers on the individual fields of research (ToM: Saxe, 2006; Zilbovicious et al., 2006; Gallagher & Frith, 2003; AV integration: Amedi et al., 2005; Beauchamp, 2005; Calvert, 2001; biological motion…”