Journal
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
Volume 38, Issue 9, Pages 4788-4805Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23675
Keywords
mentalizing; social cognition; attention reorienting; neuroanatomy; angular gyrus; superior temporal sulcus
Funding
- Austrian Science Fund [FWF-J4009-B27]
- Austrian Science Fund's Doctoral College Imaging the Mind [FWF-W1233-G17]
- VIDI (Dutch Organization for Scientific Research NWO) [452-13-015]
- Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellowship
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [J4009] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
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In this quantitative review, we specified the anatomical basis of brain activity reported in the Temporo-Parietal Junction (TPJ) in Theory of Mind (ToM) research. Using probabilistic brain atlases, we labeled TPJ peak coordinates reported in the literature. This was carried out for four different atlas modalities: (i) gyral-parcellation, (ii) sulco-gyral parcellation, (iii) cytoarchitectonic parcellation and (iv) connectivity-based parcellation. In addition, our review distinguished between two ToM task types (false belief and social animations) and a nonsocial task (attention reorienting). We estimated the mean probabilities of activation for each atlas label, and found that for all three task types part of TPJ activations fell into the same areas: (i) Angular Gyrus (AG) and Lateral Occpital Cortex (LOC) in terms of a gyral atlas, (ii) AG and Superior Temporal Sulcus (STS) in terms of a sulco-gyral atlas, (iii) areas PGa and PGp in terms of cytoarchitecture and (iv) area TPJp in terms of a connectivity-based parcellation atlas. Beside these commonalities, we also found that individual task types showed preferential activation for particular labels. Main findings for the right hemisphere were preferential activation for false belief tasks in AG/PGa, and in Supramarginal Gyrus (SMG)/PFm for attention reorienting. Social animations showed strongest selective activation in the left hemisphere, specifically in left Middle Temporal Gyrus (MTG). We discuss how our results (i.e., identified atlas structures) can provide a new reference for describing future findings, with the aim to integrate different labels and terminologies used for studying brain activity around the TPJ. (C) 2017Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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