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Rebecca Saxe

John W Jarve Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT
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Uniquely human social cognition

R Saxe - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2006 - Elsevier
Recent data identify distinct components of social cognition associated with five brain regions.
In posterior temporal cortex, the extrastriate body area is associated with perceiving the …

Understanding other minds: linking developmental psychology and functional neuroimaging

R Saxe, S Carey, N Kanwisher - Annu. Rev. Psychol., 2004 - annualreviews.org
… our knowledge only one study to date explicitly aimed to contrast brain regions involved in
the attribution of different kinds of mental states (R. Saxe, DK Xiao, G. Kovacs, D. Perrett, & N. …

Against simulation: the argument from error

R Saxe - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2005 - cell.com
According to Simulation Theory, to understand what is going on in another person's mind,
the observer uses his or her own mind as a model of the other mind. Recently, philosophers …

The SOCO scale: A measure of the customer orientation of salespeople

R Saxe, BA Weitz - Journal of marketing research, 1982 - journals.sagepub.com
… The SOCO scale correlated (r = .56, p < .001) with a measure of long-term versus short-term
time orientation developed in this study (Saxe 1979). SOCO scores correlated negatively (r

People thinking about thinking people: the role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind”

R Saxe, N Kanwisher - Social neuroscience, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Humans powerfully and flexibly interpret the behaviour of other people based on an understanding
of their minds: that is, we use a “theory of mind.” In this study we distinguish theory of …

Us and them: Intergroup failures of empathy

…, EG Bruneau, RR Saxe - Current Directions in …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
People are often motivated to increase others' positive experiences and to alleviate others'
suffering. These tendencies to care about and help one another form the foundation of human …

Making sense of another mind: the role of the right temporo-parietal junction

R Saxe, A Wexler - Neuropsychologia, 2005 - Elsevier
Human adults conceive of one another as beings with minds, and attribute to one another
mental states like perceptions, desires and beliefs. That is, we understand other people using …

Action understanding as inverse planning

CL Baker, R Saxe, JB Tenenbaum - Cognition, 2009 - Elsevier
Humans are adept at inferring the mental states underlying other agents’ actions, such as
goals, beliefs, desires, emotions and other thoughts. We propose a computational framework …

It's the thought that counts: specific brain regions for one component of theory of mind

R Saxe, LJ Powell - Psychological science, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Evidence from developmental psychology suggests that representing the contents of other
people's thoughts and beliefs depends on a component of reasoning about other minds (…

The neural basis of the interaction between theory of mind and moral judgment

…, F Cushman, M Hauser, R Saxe - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Is the basis of criminality an act that causes harm, or an act undertaken with the belief that
one will cause harm? The present study takes a cognitive neuroscience approach to …