Inferring false beliefs from the actions of oneself and others: an fMRI study.

Journal article

The ability to make judgments about mental states is critical to social interactions. Simulation theory suggests that the observer covertly mimics the activity of the observed person, leading to shared states of mind between the observer and the person observed. We tested this hypothesis by investigating the neural networks activated while subjects watched videos of themselves and of others lifting a box, and judged the beliefs of the actors about the weight of the box. A parietal premotor ci...

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Authors: Grèzes, J; Frith, C; Passingham, R

• Journal: NeuroImage
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 744-750
• Publication date: 2004-02-01
• DOI: 10.1016/s1053-8119(03)00665-7
• EISSN: 1095-9572
• ISSN: 1053-8119
• Language: English
• Keywords: Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Female; Humans; Image Enhancement; Psychomotor Performance; Neural Pathways; Cerebellum; Brain Mapping; Imitative Behavior; Weight Perception; Dominance, Cerebral; Imagination; Male; Self Concept; Oxygen Consumption; Visual Perception; Personal Construct Theory; Lifting; Weight-Bearing; Cerebral Cortex; Gyrus Cinguli; Social Perception; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted