School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, West Midlands, UK.
J Neurosci. 2011 Sep 7;31(36):12849-54. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1392-11.2011.
Neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies implicate both frontal and temporoparietal cortices when humans reason about the mental states of others. Here, we report an event-related potentials study of the time course of one such "theory of mind" ability: visual perspective taking. The findings suggest that posterior cortex, perhaps the temporoparietal cortex, calculates and represents the perspective of self versus other, and then, later, the right frontal cortex resolves conflict between perspectives during response selection.
神经影像学和神经心理学研究表明，当人类推断他人的心理状态时，额叶和颞顶叶皮层都参与其中。在这里，我们报告了一项关于这种“心理理论”能力的时间进程的事件相关电位研究：视觉视角选择。研究结果表明，后部皮层，可能是颞顶叶皮层，计算并代表了自我与他人的视角，然后，右侧额叶皮层在反应选择过程中解决了视角之间的冲突。
