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People thinking about thinking peopleThe role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind”
NeuroImage · 2003 · Vol. 19(4) · pp. 1835–1842
Rebecca Saxe✉(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Nancy Kanwisher(McGovern Institute for Brain Research)
Psychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentFace Recognition and PerceptionChild and Animal Learning DevelopmentTheory of mindPsychologyRepresentation (politics)Mental representationTemporoparietal junctionCharacter (mathematics)Cognitive psychologyCognitionNeurosciencePrefrontal cortex
MeSH terms
AwarenessBrain MappingDominance, CerebralFacial ExpressionHumansImage EnhancementImage Processing, Computer-AssistedInterpersonal RelationsMagnetic Resonance ImagingNerve NetOxygenParietal LobePattern Recognition, VisualProblem SolvingSocial Perception
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- National Eye Institute
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