• DOI:10.1177/1073858407304654
• Corpus ID: 37026268

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

@article{Decety2007TheRO,
  title={The Role of the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Social Interaction: How Low-Level Computational Processes Contribute to Meta-Cognition},
  author={Jean Decety and Claus Lamm},
  journal={The Neuroscientist},
  year={2007},
  volume={13},
  pages={580 - 593}
}

• J. Decety, C. Lamm
• Published 2 October 2007
• Psychology, Biology
• The Neuroscientist

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