Seeing minds in others: Mind perception modulates low-level social-cognitive performance and relates to ventromedial prefrontal structures.
In social interactions, we rely on nonverbal cues like gaze direction to understand the behavior of others. How we react to these cues is affected by whether they are believed to originate from an entity with a mind, capable of having internal states (i.e., mind perception). While prior work has est...
| Publicado en: | Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 18; no. 5; pp. 837 - 857 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2018
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