13.7 Neural Correlates of Mental State Attribution Theory (Theory Theory)

Question 1

Regions that are commonly engaged in a variety of tasks while participants are making inferences about the thoughts and beliefs of others

Answer 1

include the medial prefrontal cortex, temporoparietal junction, superior temporal sulcus and the temporal poles.

Question 2

The medial prefrontal cortex

Answer 2

is involved in the perception of others when we use ourselves to understand others, or when we represent information about the other person in a manner that is as complex as the way we store information about ourselves.

Question 3

right temporoparietal junction

Answer 3

is important for reasoning about other people’s mental states.

Question 4

eye gaze direction

Answer 4

Humans are also the only primates that follow eye gaze direction rather than the direction of the head of people

Question 5

superior temporal sulcus

Answer 5

Processing that occurs in the superior temporal sulcus is important for inferring mental states from the eye gaze we follow.