Gaze patterns and brain activations in humans and marmosets in the Frith-Happé theory-of-mind animation task

• Published in: eLife Vol. 12
• Main Authors: Dureux, Audrey, Zanini, Alessandro, Selvanayagam, Janahan, Menon, Ravi S, Everling, Stefan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England eLife Science Publications, Ltd 14.07.2023; eLife Sciences Publications Ltd; eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
• Subjects: Animation; Callithrix jacchus; Cognition; Cognitive ability; Eye movements; eye tracking; fMRI; Frith-Happé animations; Human subjects; marmoset monkeys; Monkeys; Monkeys & apes; Neuroscience; Theory of Mind; Canada; human; neuroscience

Theory of Mind (ToM) refers to the cognitive ability to attribute mental states to other individuals. This ability extends even to the attribution of mental states to animations featuring simple geometric shapes, such as the Frith-Happé animations in which two triangles move either purposelessly (Ra...