To date, fMRI research has been concerned primarily with evincing generic principles of
brain function through averaging data from multiple subjects. Given rapid developments in …

Usage of the term 'theory of mind'(ToM) has exploded across fields ranging from
developmental psychology to social neuroscience and psychiatry research. However, its …

Differences in people's beliefs can substantially impact their interpretation of a series of
events. In this functional MRI study, we manipulated subjects' beliefs, leading two groups of …

While the discussion on the foundations of social understanding mainly revolves around the
notions of empathy, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing, their degree of overlap …

Social cognition refers to a set of processes, ranging from perception to decision‐making,
underlying the ability to decode others' intentions and behaviors to plan actions fitting with …

In this quantitative review, we specified the anatomical basis of brain activity reported in the
Temporo‐Parietal Junction (TPJ) in Theory of Mind (ToM) research. Using probabilistic brain …

This meta-analysis explores the role of the posterior cerebellum Crus I/II in social
mentalizing. We identified over 200 functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies …

Functional localizer tasks allow researchers to identify brain regions in each individual's
brain, using a combination of anatomical and functional constraints. In this study, we …

By the late 1990s, several converging trends in economics, psychology, and neuroscience
had set the stage for the birth of a new scientific field known as “neuroeconomics”. Without …

The concept of domain specificity—which suggests that some aspects of neural processing
are specialized for particular types of stimuli—has been invoked to explain a range of …