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The right temporoparietal junction in attention and social interaction: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Specifying the brain anatomy underlying temporo-parietal junction activations for theory of mind: A review using probabilistic atlases from different imaging modalities.Human brain mapping · 2017Pooled it
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- Female Cerebellum Seems Sociable; An iTBS Investigation.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Trial
- Breakdown of intention-based outcome evaluation after transient right temporoparietal junction deactivation.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) for social cognition and social skills in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2018Trial
- Elevated brain glutamine levels in adults with autism spectrum disorder: A 7T MRS study.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Precision Neuromodulation Treatment Reverses Motor and Cognitive Slowing After Stroke: Clinical and Neurophysiological Evidence.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Age differences in neural discriminability of rumination and worry.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Inflammation-related aberrations in beta and gamma oscillatory dynamics serving attention processing in typically developing youth.Brain communications · 2026Article
- Older and wiser? The neural correlates of worry induction and reappraisal in older adults.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Innovating transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder: Zapping away the bad memory.Fundamental research · 2025Review
- Training individuals with schizophrenia to gain volitional control of the theory of mind network with real-time fMRI: A pilot study.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2024Article
- Inhibition of the inferior parietal lobe triggers state-dependent network adaptations.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Improves Executive Functioning through Modulation of Social Cognitive Networks in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment: Preliminary Results.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Successful modulation of temporoparietal junction activity and stimulus-driven attention by fNIRS-based neurofeedback-A randomized controlled proof-of-concept study.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2023Article
- Targeting Affective Mood Disorders With Ketamine to Prevent Chronic Postsurgical Pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- The posterior cerebellum supports implicit learning of social belief sequences.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- The right temporoparietal junction during a cooperation dilemma: An rTMS study.Neuroimage. Reports · 2021Article
- Behavioural science is unlikely to change the world without a heterogeneity revolution.Nature human behaviour · 2021Review
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Abstract
The right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) has been associated with the ability to reorient attention to unexpected stimuli and the capacity to understand others' mental states (theory of mind [ToM]/false belief). Using activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis we previously unraveled that the anterior rTPJ is involved in both, reorienting of attention and ToM, possibly indicating a more general role in attention shifting. Here, we used neuronavigated transcranial magnetic stimulation to directly probe the role of the rTPJ across attentional reorienting and false belief. Task performance in a visual cueing paradigm and false belief cartoon task was investigated after application of continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) over anterior rTPJ (versus vertex, for control). We found that attentional reorienting was significantly impaired after rTPJ cTBS compared with control. For the false belief task, error rates in trials demanding a shift in mental state significantly increased. Of note, a significant positive correlation indicated a close relation between the stimulation effect on attentional reorienting and false belief trials. Our findings extend previous neuroimaging evidence by indicating an essential overarching role of the anterior rTPJ for both cognitive functions, reorienting of attention and ToM. Hum Brain Mapp 37:796-807, 2016. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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