The Role of the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Social Interaction: How Low-Level Computational Processes Contribute to Meta-Cognition

Decety, Jean; Lamm, Claus

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“…The higher the TPJ gray matter volume, the more ASD individuals performed like control participants in the interactivity-detection task. This brain-behavior correlation in the ASD group is in accordance with the proposal that the right TPJ is implicated in the uniquely human capacity of social cognition, including the ability to reason and empathize with other people's mental and affective states (Frith and Frith 1999;Saxe and Kanwisher 2003;Saxe 2006;Decety and Lamm 2007) and to take others' perspectives (Blanke 2005). The present correlation is in line with recent findings: (i) posterior superior temporal volume can be linked to loneliness and the ability to recognize social signals (i.e., eye gaze; Kanai et al 2012); and (ii) enhanced social ability (i.e., imitation and perspective talking) can be obtained by stimulating right temporoparietal junction via transcranial direct current stimulation (Santiesteban et al 2012).…”

Section: Regional Gray Matter Abnormalities and Their Correlation Witsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…For the ASD group, the stepwise regression analyses yielded significant results only for one region: the right angular gyrus / ascending segment of the posterior superior temporal sulcus, also called the temporoparietal junction or TPJ (Corbetta et al 2000;Decety and Lamm 2007;Mars et al 2011). The regression model that could explain gray matter in this region included only performance in the interactivity task as predictor (F(1,9)=13.08, p<0.008; r=.75, r 2 =.56; Figure 3).…”

Section: Social Motion Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Right Temporoparietal Gray Matter Predicts Accuracy of Social Perception in the Autism Spectrum

David

Schultz

Milne

et al. 2013

J Autism Dev Disord

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Individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show hallmark deficits in social perception. These difficulties might also reflect fundamental deficits in integrating visual signals. We contrasted predictions of a social perception and a spatialndash;temporal integration deficit account. Participants with ASD and matched controls performed two tasks: the first required spatiotemporal integration of global motion signals without social meaning, the second required processing of socially relevant local motion. The ASD group only showed differences to controls in social motion evaluation. In addition, gray matter volume in the temporalndash;parietal junction correlated positively with accuracy in social motion perception in the ASD group. Our findings suggest that socialndash;perceptual difficulties in ASD cannot be reduced to deficits in spatialndash;temporal integration

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Section: Regional Gray Matter Abnormalities and Their Correlation Witsupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Social Motion Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Right Temporoparietal Gray Matter Predicts Accuracy of Social Perception in the Autism Spectrum

David

Schultz

Milne

et al. 2013

J Autism Dev Disord

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“…Interestingly, a large body of evidence suggests that the TPJ is also involved in more abstract cognitive abilities, such as mind reading (Saxe & Wexler, 2005), theory of mind (Vogeley & Fink, 2003) and empathy (Decety & Lamm, 2007). All these functions imply a shift of perspective, from one's own cognitive or emotional point of view to that of another.…”

Section: The Body In the World: Self-locationmentioning

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“…Thus, a full understanding of human cognition ought to take into account how cognition shapes and is shaped by social interaction. The body is our interface with others (see e.g., Adolphs, 2009;Decety & Lamm, 2007;Gallese, Keysers, & Rizzolatti, 2004;Saxe, 2006), and therefore it is possible that social interactions shape the experience we have of our body (Ambrosini, Blomberg, Mandrigin, & Costantini, 2013;Cardellicchio, Sinigaglia, & Costantini, 2012;Cardini, Tajadura-Jimenez, Serino, & Tsakiris, 2012;Costantini, Ambrosini, Sinigaglia, & Gallese, 2011;Costantini, Committeri, & Sinigaglia, 2011;Costantini et al, 2013;Serino, Giovagnoli, & Ladavas, 2009;Teneggi, Canzoneri, di Pellegrino, & Serino, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Bodily ownership and self-location: Components of bodily self-consciousness

Serino

Alsmith

Costantini

et al. 2013

Consciousness and Cognition

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a b s t r a c tRecent research on bodily self-consciousness has assumed that it consists of three distinct components: the experience of owning a body (body ownership); the experience of being a body with a given location within the environment (self-location); and the experience of taking a first-person, body-centered, perspective on that environment (perspective). Here we review recent neuroimaging studies suggesting that at least two of these components-body ownership and self-location-are implemented in rather distinct neural substrates, located, respectively, in the premotor cortex and in the temporo-parietal junction. We examine these results and consider them in relation to clinical evidence from patients with altered body perception and work on a variety of multisensory, body-related illusions, such as the rubber hand illusion, the full body illusion, the body swap illusion and the enfacement illusion. We conclude by providing a preliminary synthesis of the data on bodily self-consciousness and its neural correlates.

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“…By contrast, in schizophrenia, a hypo-activation in several brain regions, especially in the left inferior frontal gyrus (Russell, et al, 2000) and right posterior orbital cortex (Brunet et al, 2003) during the performance of the Eyes-test has been shown. Regarding the sense of agency, an abnormal hyper-activation of the IPL, the brain area critical for distinguishing internally produced actions from those generated by others (Decety et al, 2002, Farrer et al, 2004, Decety and Lamm, 2006, Schnell et al, 2007 has been found in schizophrenia, especially in patients with firstrank symptoms (Spence et al, 1997, Farrer, et al, 2004. Regarding the interaction between the sense of agency and mentalizing, it has been speculated that, since schizophrenia patients show impairments in both processes on a physiological level, the functional connectivity between the IPL and prefrontal areas, may also be impaired (Frith et al, 2000).…”

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Sense of agency and mentalizing: Dissociation of subdomains of social cognition in patients with schizophrenia

Schimansky

David

Rössler

et al. 2010

Psychiatry Research

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The sense of agency, i.e., the sense that "I am the one who is causing an action", and mentalizing, the ability to understand the mental states of other individuals, are key domains of social cognition. It has been hypothesized that an intact sense of agency is an important precondition for higher-level mentalizing abilities. A substantial body of evidence shows that both processes rely on similar brain areas and are severely impaired in schizophrenia, suggesting a close link between agency and mentalizing. Yet this relationship has not been explicitly tested. We investigated 40 individuals with schizophrenia and 40 healthy controls on an agency and mentalizing task. On the agency task, participants carried out simple mouse movements and judged the partially manipulated visual feedback as either self-or other-generated. On the mentalizing task, participants inferred mental states from pictures that depicted others' eyes ("Reading the mind in the eyes test"). Neuropsychological, psychopathological and social functioning levels were also evaluated. Both sense of agency and mentalizing were impaired in schizophrenia patients compared to healthy controls. However, testing for a relationship revealed no significant correlations between the two processes, either in the schizophrenia or the control group. The present findings demonstrate a dissociation of agency and mentalizing deficits in schizophrenia, suggesting that the multifaceted construct of social cognition consists of independent subdomains in healthy and psychiatrically ill individuals. AbstractThe sense of agency, i.e., the sense that "I am the one who is causing an action", and mentalizing, the ability to understand the mental states of other individuals, are key domains of social cognition. It has been hypothesized that an intact sense of agency is an important precondition for higher-level mentalizing abilities. A substantial body of evidence shows that both processes rely on similar brain areas and are severely impaired in schizophrenia, suggesting a close link between agency andmentalizing. Yet this relationship has not been explicitly tested. We investigated 40 individuals with schizophrenia and 40 healthy controls on an agency and mentalizing task. On the agency task, participants carried out simple mouse movements and judged the partially manipulated visual feedback as either self or other generated. On the mentalizing task, participants inferred mental states from pictures that depicted others' eyes ("Reading the Mind in the Eyes test"). Neuropsychological, psychopathological and social functioning levels were also evaluated.Both sense of agency and mentalizing were impaired in schizophrenics compared to healthy controls.However, testing for a relationship revealed no significant correlations between the two processes, either in the schizophrenia or the control group.The present findings demonstrate a dissociation of agency and mentalizing deficits in schizophrenia,suggesting that the multifaceted construct of social cognition consists of independ...

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The Role of the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Social Interaction: How Low-Level Computational Processes Contribute to Meta-Cognition

Cited by 884 publications

References 30 publications

Right Temporoparietal Gray Matter Predicts Accuracy of Social Perception in the Autism Spectrum

Right Temporoparietal Gray Matter Predicts Accuracy of Social Perception in the Autism Spectrum

Bodily ownership and self-location: Components of bodily self-consciousness

Sense of agency and mentalizing: Dissociation of subdomains of social cognition in patients with schizophrenia

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