How the brain pays attention to others’ attention

The role of temporal cortex in the control of attention

“…The GFP located in the pSTS has been shown to specifically support the faculty of joint attention ( Marciniak et al, 2014 ; Marquardt et al, 2017 ; Laube et al, 2011 ), a necessary component of primates' social development ( Emery et al, 1997 ; Klein et al, 2009 ; Leopold and Krauzlis, 2020 ). Ramezanpour and Thier performed the first electrophysiological recordings from the monkey GFP showing that neurons in this area are spatially tuned to locations that someone else is looking at, enabling the observer to shift their attention to the same ( Ramezanpour and Thier, 2020 ; Ramezanpour et al, 2021 ).…”