Why and how to study Theory of Mind with fMRI.
Social cognitive neuroscience investigates the psychological and neural basis of perception and reasoning about other people, especially in terms of invisible internal states. This enterprise poses many challenges. The current review describes responses to three such challenges: deriving hypotheses from developmental psychology, using verbal narratives as stimuli, and analysing the results in functionally defined regions of interest.
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Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Saxe@mit.edu
D001921:Brain / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000502:physiology; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012938:Social Perception