Are All Beliefs Equal? Implicit Belief Attributions Recruiting Core Brain Regions of Theory of Mind

摘要: Humans possess efficient mechanisms to behave adaptively in social contexts. They ascribe goals and beliefs others use these for behavioural predictions. Researchers argued two separate mental attribution systems: an implicit automatic one involved online interactions, explicit mainly used offline deliberations. However, the underlying of systems types represented system are still unclear. Using neuroimaging methods, we show that right temporo-parietal junction medial prefrontal cortex, brain regions consistently found be state reasoning, also recruited by spontaneous belief tracking. While cortex was more active when both participant another agent believed object at a specific location, selectively activated during tracking false about presence, but not absence objects. humans can explicitly attribute conspecific any possible they themselves entertain, seems restricted with contents, content selectivity may reflect crucial functional characteristic signature property attribution.