scholarly journals The neural basis for mental state attribution: A voxel‐based lesion mapping study

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79
Author(s):  
Shira Cohen‐Zimerman ◽  
Harsh Khilwani ◽  
Gretchen N. L. Smith ◽  
Frank Krueger ◽  
Barry Gordon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Mapping Study ◽  
Neural Basis ◽  
Mental State Attribution ◽  
Lesion Mapping

Social Attention Effects Do Not Depend On Mental-state Attribution

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff G. Cole ◽  
Daniel T. Smith ◽  
Rebeccah-Claire Billing
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
Mental State Attribution

Dehumanization and Mentalizing Animals

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.J. Kasperbauer
Keyword(s):  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Moral Status ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mental State Attribution ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Phenomenal States

This chapter applies the psychological account from chapter 3 on how we rank human beings above other animals, to the particular case of using mental states to assign animals moral status. Experiments on the psychology of mental state attribution are discussed, focusing on their implications for human moral psychology. The chapter argues that attributions of phenomenal states, like emotions, drive our assignments of moral status. It also describes how this is significantly impacted by the process of dehumanization. Psychological research on anthropocentrism and using animals as food and as companions is discussed in order to illuminate the relationship between dehumanization and mental state attribution.

Personality and behavioral changes after brain tumor resection: a lesion mapping study

2021 ◽  
Vol 163 (5) ◽  
pp. 1257-1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Laure Lemaitre ◽  
Guillaume Herbet ◽  
Hugues Duffau ◽  
Gilles Lafargue
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Tumor Resection ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Mapping Study ◽  
Lesion Mapping ◽  
Brain Tumor Resection

scholarly journals Shot scale matters: The effect of close-up frequency on mental state attribution in film viewers

Poetics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 101480
Author(s):  
Katalin Eva Bálint ◽  
Janine Nadine Blessing ◽  
Brendan Rooney
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Mental State Attribution

scholarly journals Neural underpinning of a personal relationship with God and sense of control: A lesion-mapping study

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-587
Author(s):  
Shira Cohen-Zimerman ◽  
Irene Cristofori ◽  
Wanting Zhong ◽  
Joseph Bulbulia ◽  
Frank Krueger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Sense Of Control ◽  
Mapping Study ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Lesion Mapping

Contagious yawning: the role of self-awareness and mental state attribution

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven M Platek ◽  
Samuel R Critton ◽  
Thomas E Myers ◽  
Gordon G Gallup
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Contagious Yawning ◽  
Mental State Attribution

scholarly journals No evidence of contagious yawning in the red-footed tortoise Geochelone carbonaria

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Wilkinson ◽  
Natalie Sebanz ◽  
Isabella Mandl ◽  
Ludwig Huber
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Perception And Action ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Action Pattern ◽  
Social Stimuli ◽  
Contagious Yawning ◽  
Mental State Attribution ◽  
Fixed Action Pattern ◽  
Fixed Action ◽  
Significant Difference

Abstract Three hypotheses have attempted to explain the phenomenon of contagious yawning. It has been hypothesized that it is a fixed action pattern for which the releasing stimulus is the observation of another yawn, that it is the result of non-conscious mimicry emerging through close links between perception and action or that it is the result of empathy, involving the ability to engage in mental state attribution. This set of experiments sought to distinguish between these hypotheses by examining contagious yawning in a species that is unlikely to show nonconscious mimicry and empathy but does respond to social stimuli: the red-footed tortoise Geochelone carbonaria. A demonstrator tortoise was conditioned to yawn when presented with a red square-shaped stimulus. Observer tortoises were exposed to three conditions: observation of conditioned yawn, non demonstration control, and stimulus only control. We measured the number of yawns for each observer animal in each condition. There was no difference between conditions. Experiment 2 therefore increased the number of conditioned yawns presented. Again, there was no significant difference between conditions. It seemed plausible that the tortoises did not view the conditioned yawn as a real yawn and therefore a final experiment was run using video recorded stimuli. The observer tortoises were presented with three conditions: real yawn, conditioned yawns and empty background. Again there was no significant difference between conditions. We therefore conclude that the red-footed tortoise does not yawn in response to observing a conspecific yawn. This suggests that contagious yawning is not the result of a fixed action pattern but may involve more complex social processes.

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