The role of the right temporoparietal junction in attention and social interaction as revealed by ALE meta-analysis

• Published in: Brain Structure and Function Vol. 220; no. 2; pp. 587 - 604
• Main Authors: Krall, S. C., Rottschy, C., Oberwelland, E., Bzdok, D., Fox, P. T., Eickhoff, S. B., Fink, G. R., Konrad, K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.03.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Attention - physiology; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Brain Mapping; Brain research; Cell Biology; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Meta-analysis; Neural Pathways - physiology; Neurology; Neurosciences; Occipital Lobe - physiology; Parietal Lobe - physiology; Review; Systematic review; Temporal Lobe - physiology; Theory of Mind - physiology; RSFC; ALE; Theory of mind; MACM; Attention

The right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) is frequently associated with different capacities that to shift attention to unexpected stimuli (reorienting of attention) and to understand others’ (false) mental state [theory of mind (ToM), typically represented by false belief tasks]. Competing hypothes...