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The role of the right temporoparietal junction in social interaction: how low-level computational processes contribute to meta-cognition.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  17911216     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Accumulating evidence from cognitive neuroscience indicates that the right inferior parietal cortex, at the junction with the posterior temporal cortex, plays a critical role in various aspects of social cognition such as theory of mind and empathy. With a quantitative meta-analysis of 70 functional neuroimaging studies, the authors demonstrate that this area is also engaged in lower-level (bottom-up) computational processes associated with the sense of agency and reorienting attention to salient stimuli. It is argued that this domain-general computational mechanism is crucial for higher level social cognitive processing.
Authors:
Jean Decety; Claus Lamm
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Review     Date:  2007-10-02
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry     Volume:  13     ISSN:  1073-8584     ISO Abbreviation:  Neuroscientist     Publication Date:  2007 Dec 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2007-11-16     Completed Date:  2008-02-14     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9504819     Medline TA:  Neuroscientist     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  580-93     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. decety@uchicago.edu
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Attention / physiology
Brain Mapping
Cognition / physiology*
Functional Laterality / physiology*
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods
Interpersonal Relations*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods
Oxygen / blood
Parietal Lobe / blood supply,  physiology*
Temporal Lobe / blood supply,  physiology*
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
7782-44-7/Oxygen

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