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SUBMITTER: Ozdem C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6861364 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Özdem Ceylan C Brass Marcel M Schippers Arjen A Van der Cruyssen Laurens L Van Overwalle Frank F
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience 20191201 6
Neuroimaging research has demonstrated that mentalizing about false beliefs held by other people recruits the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ). However, earlier work was limited to a single agent that held a false belief. We investigated the effect of two agents that held similar or mixed false and/or true beliefs. Participants saw animated stories with two smurfs holding true or false beliefs (Story phase). At the end of each trial, they were requested to take the perspective of the self or one ...[more]