Journal article
Higher order intentionality tasks are cognitively more demanding
- Abstract:
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A central assumption that underpins much of the discussion of the role played by social cognition in brain evolution is that social cognition is unusually cognitively demanding. This assumption has never been tested. Here, we use a task in which participants read stories and then answered questions about the stories in a behavioural experiment (39 participants) and an fMRI experiment (17 participants) to show that mentalising requires more time for responses than factual memory of a matched c...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
+ European Research Council
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Funding agency for:
Dunbar, R
Grant:
Advanced Investigator grant
University of Liverpool
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 7
- Pages:
- 1063–1071
- Publication date:
- 2017-03-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-03-07
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1749-5024
- ISSN:
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1749-5016
- Source identifiers:
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684185
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- Local pid:
- pubs:684185
- Deposit date:
- 2017-03-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Dunbar et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author (2017). Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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