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Reading other people's mind : insights from neuropsychology

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Samson, Dana [UCL]

When trying to make sense of other people's behaviour we usually invoke their mental states, such as their intentions, beliefs or emotions. This mind reading ability has been traditionally investigated in developmental psychology and comparative psychology but is now receiving increasing attention from the cognitive neurosciences. I will show the important role that neuropsychology plays in unravelling the cognitive and neural basis of our mind reading abilities. I will illustrate this by showing how cases of adults with acquired brain lesions can help us tease apart the different mechanisms that underlie mind reading abilities and can help us understand the nature of these mechanisms, especially their relation to language and executive function.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Review
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2009
Language Anglais
Journal information "Journal of Neuropsychology" - Vol. 3, no. 1, p. 3-16 (2009)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 1748-6645
e-issn 1748-6653
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - PSP/PSP - Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation
MESH Subject Review Literature as Topic ; Reading ; Psychological Theory ; Neuropsychology ; Mental Processes - physiology ; Interpersonal Relations ; Humans
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Bibliographic reference Samson, Dana. Reading other people's mind : insights from neuropsychology. In: Journal of Neuropsychology, Vol. 3, no. 1, p. 3-16 (2009)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/87582