PMID- 20510369
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20101217
LR  - 20100726
IS  - 1095-9572 (Electronic)
IS  - 1053-8119 (Linking)
VI  - 52
IP  - 4
DP  - 2010 Oct 1
TI  - Taking perspective into account in a communicative task.
PG  - 1574-83
LID - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.05.056 [doi]
AB  - Previous neuroimaging studies of spatial perspective taking have tended not to 
      activate the brain's mentalising network. We predicted that a task that requires 
      the use of perspective taking in a communicative context would lead to the 
      activation of mentalising regions. In the current task, participants followed 
      auditory instructions to move objects in a set of shelves. A 2x2 factorial design 
      was employed. In the Director factor, two directors (one female and one male) 
      either stood behind or next to the shelves, or were replaced by symbolic cues. In 
      the Object factor, participants needed to use the cues (position of the directors 
      or symbolic cues) to select one of three possible objects, or only one object 
      could be selected. Mere presence of the Directors was associated with activity in 
      the superior dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and the superior/middle 
      temporal sulci, extending into the extrastriate body area and the posterior 
      superior temporal sulcus (pSTS), regions previously found to be responsive to 
      human bodies and faces respectively. The interaction between the Director and 
      Object factors, which requires participants to take into account the perspective 
      of the director, led to additional recruitment of the superior dorsal MPFC, a 
      region activated when thinking about dissimilar others' mental states, and the 
      middle temporal gyri, extending into the left temporal pole. Our results show 
      that using perspective taking in a communicative context, which requires 
      participants to think not only about what the other person sees but also about 
      his/her intentions, leads to the recruitment of superior dorsal MPFC and parts of 
      the social brain network.
CI  - Copyright 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - Dumontheil, Iroise
AU  - Dumontheil I
AD  - Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK. 
      i.dumontheil@gmail.com
FAU - Kuster, Olivia
AU  - Kuster O
FAU - Apperly, Ian A
AU  - Apperly IA
FAU - Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne
AU  - Blakemore SJ
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20100525
PL  - United States
TA  - Neuroimage
JT  - NeuroImage
JID - 9215515
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Cerebral Cortex/*physiology
MH  - *Cues
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MH  - Male
MH  - Space Perception/*physiology
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2010/06/01 06:00
MHDA- 2010/12/18 06:00
CRDT- 2010/06/01 06:00
PHST- 2009/10/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/05/13 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2010/05/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2010/06/01 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/06/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/12/18 06:00 [medline]
AID - S1053-8119(10)00789-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.05.056 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Neuroimage. 2010 Oct 1;52(4):1574-83. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.05.056. Epub 
      2010 May 25.