SynthesisBioMed research international2017
Systematic Comparison of Brain Imaging Meta-Analyses of ToM with vPT.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Relational vs representational social cognitive processing: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging data.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
- Visual Perspective Taking Training Improves Theory of Mind in Autistic Children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Trial
- From localization to distribution: revisiting the functional organization of the extrastriate body area.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2026Review
- Patterns of multiple brain network activation in dot perspective task.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Attachment, Mentalizing and Trauma: Then (1992) and Now (2022).Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Seeing in my way or your way: impact of intelligence, attention, and empathy on brain reactivity.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Mentalizing and self-other distinction in visual perspective taking: the analysis of temporal neural processing using high-density EEG.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Motherhood and theory of mind: increased activation in the posterior cingulate cortex and insulae.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- Rhythmic Neural Patterns During Empathy to Vicarious Pain: Beyond the Affective-Cognitive Empathy Dichotomy.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- What's in a Hub?-Representing Identity in Language and Mathematics.Neuroscience · 2020Article
- The neural systems for perceptual updating.Neuropsychologia · 2018Article
- From the Brain to the Field: The Applications of Social Neuroscience to Economics, Health and Law.Brain sciences · 2017Review
- A neural link between generosity and happiness.Nature communications · 2017Article
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Abstract
In visual perspective taking (vPT) one has to concern oneself with what other people see and how they see it. Since seeing is a mental state, developmental studies have discussed vPT within the domain of "theory of mind (ToM)" but imaging studies have not treated it as such. Based on earlier results from several meta-analyses, we tested for the overlap of visual perspective taking studies with 6 different kinds of ToM studies: false belief, trait judgments, strategic games, social animations, mind in the eyes, and rational actions. Joint activation was observed between the vPT task and some kinds of ToM tasks in regions involving the left temporoparietal junction (TPJ), anterior precuneus, left middle occipital gyrus/extrastriate body area (EBA), and the left inferior frontal and precentral gyrus. Importantly, no overlap activation was found for the vPT tasks with the joint core of all six kinds of ToM tasks. This raises the important question of what the common denominator of all tasks that fall under the label of "theory of mind" is supposed to be if visual perspective taking is not one of them.
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