List of works - Rebecca Saxe

A common neural code for perceived and inferred emotion

scientific article

A noisy-channel account of crosslinguistic word-order variation

scientific article published on 6 May 2013

A sensitive period for language in the visual cortex: distinct patterns of plasticity in congenitally versus late blind adults

scientific article

Action understanding as inverse planning

scientific article

Against simulation: the argument from error

scientific article

An FMRI investigation of spontaneous mental state inference for moral judgment

scientific article published in July 2009

Associations and dissociations between default and self-reference networks in the human brain

scientific article

Attitudes towards the outgroup are predicted by activity in the precuneus in Arabs and Israelis

scientific article

Atypical brain activation patterns during a face-to-face joint attention game in adults with autism spectrum disorder.

scientific article published on 16 April 2012

Concepts are more than percepts: the case of action verbs

scientific article

Contributions of episodic retrieval and mentalizing to autobiographical thought: evidence from functional neuroimaging, resting-state connectivity, and fMRI meta-analyses.

scientific article

Decoding moral judgments from neural representations of intentions ⬇️

scientific article published on March 11, 2013

Development of the social brain from age three to twelve years

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

Differences in the right inferior longitudinal fasciculus but no general disruption of white matter tracts in children with autism spectrum disorder

scientific article

Differential selectivity for dynamic versus static information in face-selective cortical regions ⬇️

scientific article published on 05 April 2011

Directed network discovery with dynamic network modelling

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments

scientific article

Distinct regions of right temporo-parietal junction are selective for theory of mind and exogenous attention

scientific article

Distinct roles of the 'shared pain' and 'theory of mind' networks in processing others' emotional suffering

scientific article

Divide and conquer: a defense of functional localizers

scientific article published on 24 April 2006

Empathic control through coordinated interaction of amygdala, theory of mind and extended pain matrix brain regions

scientific article

Five-month-old infants know humans are solid, like inanimate objects

scientific article published on 19 December 2005

For love or money: a common neural currency for social and monetary reward

scientific article published in April 2008

Functional Organization of Social Perception and Cognition in the Superior Temporal Sulcus

scientific article

How we know it hurts: item analysis of written narratives reveals distinct neural responses to others' physical pain and emotional suffering

scientific article

Impaired theory of mind for moral judgment in high-functioning autism

scientific article

Innocent intentions: a correlation between forgiveness for accidental harm and neural activity

scientific article published on 5 April 2009

Insights into the origins of knowledge from the cognitive neuroscience of blindness

scientific article published on January 2012

Interaction versus observation: A finer look at this distinction and its importance to autism ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2013

Investigating the Neural and Cognitive Basis of Moral Luck: It's Not What You Do but What You Know ⬇️

scientific article published on March 25, 2010

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

scientific article

Just do it? Investigating the gap between prediction and action in toddlers' causal inferences

scientific article published on 25 January 2010

Knowing who dunnit: Infants identify the causal agent in an unseen causal interaction

scientific article published in January 2007

Language processing in the occipital cortex of congenitally blind adults

scientific article

Learning a commonsense moral theory

scientific article published on 25 March 2017

Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions

scientific article published on 03 October 2019

Live face-to-face interaction during fMRI: a new tool for social cognitive neuroscience

scientific article

Localizing Pain Matrix and Theory of Mind networks with both verbal and non-verbal stimuli

scientific article

Look at this: the neural correlates of initiating and responding to bids for joint attention

scientific article

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

scientific article

Matched false-belief performance during verbal and nonverbal interference

scientific article

Mentalizing regions represent distributed, continuous, and abstract dimensions of others' beliefs

scientific article published on 11 August 2017

Mind theorist. Interview by Gareth Cook

scientific article published on December 1, 2012

Minding the Gap: Narrative Descriptions about Mental States Attenuate Parochial Empathy

scientific article published on 27 October 2015

Moral status of accidents

scientific article published on 14 April 2016

My body or yours? The effect of visual perspective on cortical body representations

scientific article published on 27 April 2005

Neural evidence for "intuitive prosecution": the use of mental state information for negative moral verdicts

scientific article published on 25 January 2011

Neural representations of emotion are organized around abstract event features

scientific article

Occipital cortex of blind individuals is functionally coupled with executive control areas of frontal cortex.

scientific article

Organization of high-level visual cortex in human infants

scientific article

Overlapping and non-overlapping brain regions for theory of mind and self reflection in individual subjects

scientific article published on December 2006

Parochial Empathy Predicts Reduced Altruism and the Endorsement of Passive Harm

scientific article published on 7 June 2017

People can understand descriptions of motion without activating visual motion brain regions

scientific article published on 28 August 2013

Rationalization: Why, when, and what for?

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

Reading minds versus following rules: dissociating theory of mind and executive control in the brain

scientific article

Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds

TEDGlobal 2009

Sensitive period for a multimodal response in human visual motion area MT/MST

scientific article

Shindigs, brunches, and rodeos: the neural basis of event words

scientific article published on September 2014

Similar brain activation during false belief tasks in a large sample of adults with and without autism

scientific article

Social cognition in members of conflict groups: behavioural and neural responses in Arabs, Israelis and South Americans to each other's misfortunes

scientific article

Structural connectivity of the developing human amygdala

scientific article

Teaching Replication

scientific article

The influence of prior record on moral judgment

scientific article published on 20 June 2008

The neural bases of directed and spontaneous mental state attributions to group agents

scientific article

The neural basis of belief encoding and integration in moral judgment

scientific article published on 14 February 2008

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

scholarly article

The neuroscience of theory of mind

scientific article published in January 2006

The perception of causality in infancy

scientific article published on 14 August 2006

The power of being heard: The benefits of ‘perspective-giving’ in the context of intergroup conflict

article published in 2012

Theory of Mind Performance in Children Correlates With Functional Specialization of a Brain Region for Thinking About Thoughts ⬇️

scientific article published on July 31, 2012

Theory of mind: a neural prediction problem

scientific article published on September 2013

Thin-slice perception develops slowly

scientific article published on 13 March 2012

Thinking about seeing: perceptual sources of knowledge are encoded in the theory of mind brain regions of sighted and blind adults

scientific article

Typical Neural Representations of Action Verbs Develop without Vision ⬇️

scientific article published on June 7, 2011

Uniquely human social cognition

scientific article

Using individual functional channels of interest to study cortical development with fNIRS.

scientific article published on 24 September 2017

What gets the attention of the temporo-parietal junction? An fMRI investigation of attention and theory of mind

scientific article

When ignorance is no excuse: Different roles for intent across moral domains

scientific article published on 23 May 2011

When minds matter for moral judgment: intent information is neurally encoded for harmful but not impure acts

scientific article published on December 2015

Why and how to study Theory of Mind with fMRI.

scientific article

fMRI item analysis in a theory of mind task

scientific article published on 21 December 2010

List of works by Rebecca Saxe

A common neural code for perceived and inferred emotion

A noisy-channel account of crosslinguistic word-order variation

A sensitive period for language in the visual cortex: distinct patterns of plasticity in congenitally versus late blind adults

Action understanding as inverse planning

Against simulation: the argument from error

An FMRI investigation of spontaneous mental state inference for moral judgment

Associations and dissociations between default and self-reference networks in the human brain

Attitudes towards the outgroup are predicted by activity in the precuneus in Arabs and Israelis

Atypical brain activation patterns during a face-to-face joint attention game in adults with autism spectrum disorder.

Concepts are more than percepts: the case of action verbs

Contributions of episodic retrieval and mentalizing to autobiographical thought: evidence from functional neuroimaging, resting-state connectivity, and fMRI meta-analyses.

Decoding moral judgments from neural representations of intentions ⬇️

Development of the social brain from age three to twelve years

Differences in the right inferior longitudinal fasciculus but no general disruption of white matter tracts in children with autism spectrum disorder

Differential selectivity for dynamic versus static information in face-selective cortical regions ⬇️

Directed network discovery with dynamic network modelling

Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments

Distinct regions of right temporo-parietal junction are selective for theory of mind and exogenous attention

Distinct roles of the 'shared pain' and 'theory of mind' networks in processing others' emotional suffering

Divide and conquer: a defense of functional localizers

Empathic control through coordinated interaction of amygdala, theory of mind and extended pain matrix brain regions

Five-month-old infants know humans are solid, like inanimate objects

For love or money: a common neural currency for social and monetary reward

Functional Organization of Social Perception and Cognition in the Superior Temporal Sulcus

How we know it hurts: item analysis of written narratives reveals distinct neural responses to others' physical pain and emotional suffering

Impaired theory of mind for moral judgment in high-functioning autism

Innocent intentions: a correlation between forgiveness for accidental harm and neural activity

Insights into the origins of knowledge from the cognitive neuroscience of blindness

Interaction versus observation: A finer look at this distinction and its importance to autism ⬇️

Investigating the Neural and Cognitive Basis of Moral Luck: It's Not What You Do but What You Know ⬇️

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

Just do it? Investigating the gap between prediction and action in toddlers' causal inferences

Knowing who dunnit: Infants identify the causal agent in an unseen causal interaction

Language processing in the occipital cortex of congenitally blind adults

Learning a commonsense moral theory

Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions

Live face-to-face interaction during fMRI: a new tool for social cognitive neuroscience

Localizing Pain Matrix and Theory of Mind networks with both verbal and non-verbal stimuli

Look at this: the neural correlates of initiating and responding to bids for joint attention

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

Matched false-belief performance during verbal and nonverbal interference

Mentalizing regions represent distributed, continuous, and abstract dimensions of others' beliefs

Mind theorist. Interview by Gareth Cook

Minding the Gap: Narrative Descriptions about Mental States Attenuate Parochial Empathy

Moral status of accidents

My body or yours? The effect of visual perspective on cortical body representations

Neural evidence for "intuitive prosecution": the use of mental state information for negative moral verdicts

Neural representations of emotion are organized around abstract event features

Occipital cortex of blind individuals is functionally coupled with executive control areas of frontal cortex.

Organization of high-level visual cortex in human infants

Overlapping and non-overlapping brain regions for theory of mind and self reflection in individual subjects

Parochial Empathy Predicts Reduced Altruism and the Endorsement of Passive Harm

People can understand descriptions of motion without activating visual motion brain regions

Rationalization: Why, when, and what for?

Reading minds versus following rules: dissociating theory of mind and executive control in the brain

Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds

Sensitive period for a multimodal response in human visual motion area MT/MST

Shindigs, brunches, and rodeos: the neural basis of event words

Similar brain activation during false belief tasks in a large sample of adults with and without autism

Social cognition in members of conflict groups: behavioural and neural responses in Arabs, Israelis and South Americans to each other's misfortunes

Structural connectivity of the developing human amygdala

Teaching Replication

The influence of prior record on moral judgment

The neural bases of directed and spontaneous mental state attributions to group agents

The neural basis of belief encoding and integration in moral judgment

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

The neuroscience of theory of mind

The perception of causality in infancy

The power of being heard: The benefits of ‘perspective-giving’ in the context of intergroup conflict

Theory of Mind Performance in Children Correlates With Functional Specialization of a Brain Region for Thinking About Thoughts ⬇️

Theory of mind: a neural prediction problem

Thin-slice perception develops slowly

Thinking about seeing: perceptual sources of knowledge are encoded in the theory of mind brain regions of sighted and blind adults

Typical Neural Representations of Action Verbs Develop without Vision ⬇️

Uniquely human social cognition

Using individual functional channels of interest to study cortical development with fNIRS.

What gets the attention of the temporo-parietal junction? An fMRI investigation of attention and theory of mind

When ignorance is no excuse: Different roles for intent across moral domains

When minds matter for moral judgment: intent information is neurally encoded for harmful but not impure acts