![[PDF]](/pb-assets/Icons/adobe-pdf-icon-1498649896243.png){kind=icon}
Abstract
Accumulating evidence from cognitive neuroscience indicates that the right inferior parietal cortex, at the junction with the posterior temporal cortex, plays a critical role in various aspects of social cognition such as theory of mind and empathy. With a quantitative meta-analysis of 70 functional neuroimaging studies, the authors demonstrate that this area is also engaged in lower-level (bottom-up) computational processes associated with the sense of agency and reorienting attention to salient stimuli. It is argued that this domain-general computational mechanism is crucial for higher level social cognitive processing. NEUROSCIENTIST 13(6): 580—593, 2007. DOI: 10.1177/1073858407304654
| Astafiev SV , Shulman GL , Corbetta M. 2006. Visuospatial reorienting signals in the human temporo-parietal junction are independent of response selection. Eur J Neurosci 23:591—6. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Berlucchi G. , Aglioti S. 1997. The body in the brain: neural bases of corporeal awareness . Trends Neurosci 20:560—4. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline, ISI | |
| Benjamini Y. , Hochberg Y. 1995. Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing. J R Stat Soc B 57:289—300. Google Scholar | |
| Blakemore S-J. , Frith C. 2003. Self-awareness and action. Curr Opin Neurobiol 13:219—24. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Blanke O. , Arzy S. 2005. The out-of-body experience: disturbed self-processing at the temporo-parietal junction. Neuroscientist 11:16—24. Google Scholar, SAGE Journals | |
| Blanke O. , Ortigue S. , Landis T. , Seeck M. 2002. Stimulating illusory own-body perceptions. Nature 419:269—70. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline, ISI | |
| Brett M. 1999. The MNI Brain and The Talairach Atlas, Cambridge Imagers . Available at: http://imaging.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/MniTalairach. Retrieved November 29, 2006. Google Scholar | |
| Coltheart M. 2006. What has functional neuroimaging told us about the mind (so far)? Cortex 42:323—31. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline, ISI | |
| Corbetta M. , Shulman GL 2002. Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain. Nat Neurosci Rev 3:201—15. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Decety J. , Grèzes J. 2006. The power of simulation: Imagining one's own and other's behavior. Brain Res 1079:4—14. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Decety J. , Jackson PL 2004. The functional architecture of human empathy. Behav Cognit Neurosci Rev 3:71—100. Google Scholar, SAGE Journals | |
| Decety J. , Lamm C. 2006. Human empathy through the lens of social neuroscience . Sci World J 6:1146—63. Google Scholar, Crossref | |
| Decety J. , Sommerville JA 2003. Shared representations between self and others: a social cognitive neuroscience view. Trends Cognit Sci 7:527—33. Google Scholar | |
| Downar J. , Crawley AP , Mikulis DJ , Davis KD 2000. A multimodal cortical network for the detection of changes in the sensory environment. Nat Neurosci 3:277—83. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline, ISI | |
| Downar J. , Crawley AP , Mikulis DJ , Davis KD 2002. A cortical network sensitive to stimulus salience in a neutral behavioral context across multiple sensory modalities. J Neurophysiol 87:615—20. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Farrer C. , Franck N. , Frith CD , Decety J. , Jeannerod M. 2003. Modulating the experience of agency: a PET study. NeuroImage 18:324—33. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Farrer C. , Frith CD 2002. Experiencing oneself vs. another person as being the cause of an action: the neural correlates of the experience of agency. NeuroImage 15:596—603. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline, ISI | |
| Fox PT , Parsons LM , Lancaster JL 1998. Beyond the single study: function/location metaanalysis in cognitive neuroimaging. Curr Opin Neurobiol 8:178—87. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Genovese CR , Lazar NA , Nichols TE 2002. Thresholding of statistical maps in functional neuroimaging using the false discovery rate. Neuroimage 15:870—8. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline, ISI | |
| Henson R. 2005. What can functional neuroimaging tell the experimental psychologist? Q J Exp Psychol 58A:193—233. Google Scholar, Crossref | |
| Jackson PL , Brunet E. , Meltzoff AN , Decety J. 2006. Empathy examined through the neural mechanisms involved in imagining how I feel versus how you feel pain: an event-related fMRI study . Neuropsychologia 44:752—61. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Jackson PL , Decety J. 2004. Motor cognition: a new paradigm to investigate social interactions. Curr Opin Neurobiol 14:1—5. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Laird AR , Fox PM , Price CJ , Glahn DC , Uecker AM , Lancaster JL , and others. 2005 . ALE meta-analysis: controlling the false discovery rate and performing statistical contrasts. Hum Brain Mapp 25:155—64. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Laird AR , Lancaster JL , Fox PT 2005. BrainMap: the social evolution of a functional neuroimaging database. Neuroinformatics 3:65—78. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Lamm C. , Batson CD , Decety J. 2007. The neural basis of human empathy—effects of perspective-taking and cognitive appraisal. J Cogn Neurosci 19:1—7. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Lawrence EJ , Shaw P. , Giampietro VP , Surguladze S. , Brammer MJ , David AS 2006. The role of `shared representations ' in social perception and empathy: an fMRI study. Neuroimage 29:1173—84. Google Scholar, Medline | |
| Ruby P. , Decety J. 2001. Effect of the subjective perspective taking during simulation of action: a PET investigation of agency. Nat Neurosci 4:546—50. Google Scholar, Medline | |
| Ruby P. , Decety J. 2003. What you believe versus what you think they believe? A neuroimaging study of conceptual perspective taking. Eur J Neurosci 17:2475—80. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Saxe R. 2006. Uniquely human social cognition. Curr Opin Neurobiol 16:235—9. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Saxe R. , Wexler A. 2005. Making sense of another mind: the role of the right temporo-parietal junction. Neuropsychologia 43:1391—9. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Sommerville JA , Decety J. 2006. Weaving the fabric of social interaction: articulating developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience in the domain of motor cognition. Psychonom Bull Rev 13(2):179—200. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Stone VE , Gerrans P. 2006. What's domain-specific about theory of mind? Social Neuroscience 1(3-4):309-19. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Talairach J. , Tournoux P. 1988. Co-planar stereotaxic atlas of the human brain. New York: Thieme. Google Scholar | |
| Uddin LQ , Molnar-Szakacs I. , Zaidel E. , Iacoboni M. 2006. rTMS to the right inferior parietal lobule disrupts self-other discrimination. Soc Affective Cognit Neurosci 1:65—71. Google Scholar | |
| Van Essen DC. 2002. Windows on the brain. The emerging role of atlases and databases in neuroscience. Curr Opin Neurobiol 12:574—9. Google Scholar, Crossref, Medline | |
| Van Essen DC , Dickson J. , Harwell J. , Hanlon D. , Anderson CH , Drury HA 2001. An integrated software system for surface-based analyses of cerebral cortex. J Am Med Informat Assoc 41:1359—78. Google Scholar |
