ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2020
The Right Temporoparietal Junction Is Causally Associated with Embodied Perspective-taking.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04633499 (Effects of tDCS on Visual Perspective Taking and Emotion Recognition in Healthy Older Adults), which is not on this map. Cited by 47 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effects of tDCS on Visual Perspective Taking and Emotion Recognition in Healthy Older Adults
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47 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 93 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Enhancing response inhibition through a novel tES-fNIRS framework.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Online HD-tRNS Over the Right Temporoparietal Junction Modulates Social Inference But Not Motor Coordination.eNeuro · 2025Trial
- Information processing speed modulation by electrical brain stimulation in multiple sclerosis: towards individually tailored protocols.Brain communications · 2025Trial
- Stimulation of the Social Brain Improves Perspective Selection in Older Adults: A HD-tDCS Study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2021Trial
- The behavioral evidence of processing congruences and incongruences between Self- and Other-perspective-related representations during both perspective judgments.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Disrupted brain functional networks in adolescents and young adults with gaming disorder during social interaction: An fNIRS study.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Modulating empathy with tDCS: dissociable roles of rTPJ and lDLPFC.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Now that I see it your way, I choose you: Visuo-spatial perspective-taking affects partner selection during coalition formation.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2026Article
- Functional brain mapping of body size estimation using a 3D avatar.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Brain mechanisms underlying self-other distinction for bodily self-recognition.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2026Review
- A dual-fMRI investigation of interpersonal emotion regulation: Predicting strategy selection and implementation success from effective brain connectivity.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Multimodal imaging-based targeting approach for network-level brain stimulation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Regionally specific picture naming benefits of focal tDCS are dependent on baseline performance in older adults.GeroScience · 2025Article
- Multidimensional Phenotyping and Predictive Neuropsychological Modeling of Socio-Cognitive Endophenotypes in Early Parkinson's Disease.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Deciding When to Align: Computational and Neural Mechanisms of Goal-Directed Social Alignment.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Burnout and the Brain-A Mechanistic Review of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Studies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- How the brain memorizes the world from others' perspectives: investigating allocentric encoding of object features during perspective taking.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
A prominent theory claims that the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) is especially associated with embodied processes relevant to perspective-taking. In the present study, we use high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation to provide evidence that the rTPJ is causally associated with the embodied processes underpinning perspective-taking. Eighty-eight young human adults were stratified to receive either rTPJ or dorsomedial PFC anodal high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation in a sham-controlled, double-blind, repeated-measures design. Perspective-tracking (line-of-sight) and perspective-taking (embodied rotation) were assessed using a visuo-spatial perspective-taking task that required understanding what another person could see or how they see it, respectively. Embodied processing was manipulated by positioning the participant in a manner congruent or incongruent with the orientation of an avatar on the screen. As perspective-taking, but not perspective-tracking, is influenced by bodily position, this allows the investigation of the specific causal role for the rTPJ in embodied processing. Crucially, anodal stimulation to the rTPJ increased the effect of bodily position during perspective-taking, whereas no such effects were identified during perspective-tracking, thereby providing evidence for a causal role for the rTPJ in the embodied component of perspective-taking. Stimulation to the dorsomedial PFC had no effect on perspective-tracking or taking. Therefore, the present study provides support for theories postulating that the rTPJ is causally involved in embodied cognitive processing relevant to social functioning.
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