Selected Publications
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2020
Early Signatures and Developmental Change in Brain Regions for Theory of Mind.
Neural Circuit and Cognitive Development. 2, 467-484.
[PDF] (471.74 KB)
(2020).

Reduced Neural Selectivity for Mental States in Deaf Children with Delayed Exposure to Sign Language.
Nature Communications. 11, 3246.
[PDF] (1.3 MB)
(2020).

Learning in infancy is active, endogenously motivated, and depends on the prefrontal cortices..
Annual Review of Developmental Psychology. 2, 247-268.
annurev-devpsych-121318-084841.pdf (1.09 MB)
(2020).

Political preferences and threat perception: opportunities for neuroimaging and developmental research.
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 34, 58 - 63.
[PDF] (302.77 KB)
(2020).

Acute stress alters neural patterns of value representation for others.
NeuroImage. 209(1), 116497.
[PDF] (1.25 MB)
(2020).

Preferences for redistribution are sensitive to perceived luck, social homogeneity, war and scarcity.
Cognition. 198, 104234.
[PDF] (2.06 MB)
(2020).

Processing communicative facial and vocal cues in the superior temporal sulcus.
NeuroImage. 221(1), 117191.
[PDF] (3.52 MB)
(2020).

2019
Development of Predictive Responses in Theory of Mind Brain Regions.
Developmental Science. e12863.
[PDF] (524.66 KB)
(2019).

There’s more to “sparkle” than meets the eye: Knowledge of vision and light verbs among congenitally blind and sighted individuals.
Cognition. 189, 105 - 115.
[PDF] (1.75 MB)
(2019).

Parts-based representations of perceived face movements in the superior temporal sulcus.
Human Brain Mapping.
[PDF] (4 MB)
(2019).

The neuroscience of unmet social needs.
Social Neuroscience. 1 - 11.
[PDF] (1.02 MB)
(2019).

Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions.
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[Supplement] (91.92 KB)
(2019).


2018
Development of the social brain from age three to twelve years.
Nature Communications.
[PDF] (1.72 MB)
(2018).

Cortical responses to dynamic emotional facial expressions generalize across stimuli, and are sensitive to task-relevance, in adults with and without Autism.
Cortex. 103(2018), 24 - 43.
[PDF] (2.11 MB)
(2018).

Denying humanity: The distinct neural correlates of blatant dehumanization.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 147(7), 1078 - 1093.
[PDF] (942.06 KB)
(2018).

Seeing Other Minds in 3D.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 22(3), 193 - 195.
[PDF] (363.66 KB)
(2018).

Social Origins of Cortical Face Areas.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
[PDF] (1.97 MB)
(2018).

The Other and Me: Effects of oxytocin on self-other distinction.
International Journal of Psychophysiology.
[PDF] (2.24 MB)
(2018).

Development of brain networks for social functions: Confirmatory analyses in a large open source dataset.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
[PDF] (2.32 MB)
(2018).

“Affective Theory of Mind” and the Function of the Ventral Medial Prefrontal Cortex.
Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology. 31(1), 36-37.
[PDF] (104.99 KB)
(2018).

2017
Anterior temporal lobe and the representation of knowledge about people.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(16), 4042 - 4044.
[PDF] (592.39 KB)
(2017).

High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging reveals nuclei of the human amygdala: manual segmentation to automatic atlas.
NeuroImage. 155(2017), 370 - 382.
[PDF] (1.18 MB)
(2017).

Directed network discovery with dynamic network modelling.
Neuropsychologia. 99(2017), 1 - 11.
[PDF] (786.75 KB)
(2017).

Mentalizing regions represent distributed, continuous, and abstract dimensions of others' beliefs.
NeuroImage. 161, 9 - 18.
[PDF] (1.25 MB)
(2017).

Rational quantitative attribution of beliefs, desires and percepts in human mentalizing.
Nature Human Behaviour.
[PDF] (713.01 KB)
(2017).

Organization of high-level visual cortex in human infants.
Nature Communications. 8, 13995.
[PDF] (1.65 MB)
(2017).

Formalizing emotion concepts within a Bayesian model of theory of mind.
Current Opinion in Psychology. 17, 15 - 21.
[PDF] (616.93 KB)
(2017).

Using individual functional channels of interest to study cortical development with fNIRS.
Developmental Science. e12595.
[PDF] (845.06 KB)
(2017).

Replications of implicit theory of mind tasks with varying representational demands.
Cognitive Development. 46, 40 - 50.
[PDF] (464.93 KB)
(2017).

Learning a commonsense moral theory.
Cognition. 167, 107 - 123.
[PDF] (1.68 MB)
(2017).

Parochial Empathy Predicts Reduced Altruism and the Endorsement of Passive Harm.
Social Psychological and Personality Science. 934 - 942.
[PDF] (256.36 KB)
(2017).

Multivariate pattern dependence.
PLOS Computational Biology. 13(11), e1005799.
[PDF] (8.18 MB)
(2017).

2016
Moral status of accidents.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(17), 4555 - 4557.
[PDF] (529.82 KB)
(2016).

Measuring and Modeling Transformations of Information Between Brain Regions with fMRI.
bioRxiv.
[PDF] (1.64 MB)
(2016).

Decoding task and stimulus representations in face-responsive cortex.
Cognitive Neuropsychology. 33(7-8), 362 - 377.
[PDF] (1.18 MB)
(2016).

When minds matter for moral judgment: intent information is neurally encoded for harmful but not impure acts.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 1120(3), 476 - 484.
[PDF] (809.4 KB)
(2016).

2015
Amygdala lesions do not compromise the cortical network for false-belief reasoning.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112153(15), 4827 - 4832.
[PDF] (878.1 KB)
(2015).

Empathic control through coordinated interaction of amygdala, theory of mind and extended pain matrix brain regions.
NeuroImage. 114, 105 - 119.
[PDF] (1.78 MB)
(2015).

A Second Look at Automatic Theory of Mind.
Psychological Science. 26(9), 1353 - 1367.
[PDF] (752.09 KB)
(2015).

Functional Organization of Social Perception and Cognition in the Superior Temporal Sulcus.
Cerebral Cortex. 25(11), 4596 - 4609.
[PDF] (931.35 KB)
(2015).

Neural Representations of Emotion Are Organized around Abstract Event Features.
Current Biology. 25(15), 1945 - 1954.
[PDF] (2.06 MB)
[Raw Feature Ratings] (1.06 MB)
(2015).


Localizing Pain Matrix and Theory of Mind networks with both verbal and non-verbal stimuli.
NeuroImage. 126(2016), 39 - 48.
[PDF] (1.73 MB)
(2015).

“Visual” Cortex Responds to Spoken Language in Blind Children.
The Journal of Neuroscience. 35(33), 11674 - 11681.
[PDF] (1.18 MB)
(2015).

Structural Connectivity Fingerprints Predict Cortical Selectivity for Multiple Visual Categories across Cortex.
Cerebral Cortex. 26(4), 1668 - 1683.
[PDF] (1.55 MB)
(2015).

Occipital Cortex of Blind Individuals Is Functionally Coupled with Executive Control Areas of Frontal Cortex.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 27(8), 1633 - 1647.
[PDF] (1.08 MB)
(2015).

2014
Their pain gives us pleasure: How intergroup dynamics shape empathic failures and counter-empathic responses.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 55(2014), 110 - 125.
[PDF] (693.18 KB)
(2014).

The Neural Bases of Directed and Spontaneous Mental State Attributions to Group Agents.
(Siegel, A., Ed.).PLoS ONE. 9(8), e105341.
[PDF] (399.23 KB)
(2014).

Differences in the right inferior longitudinal fasciculus but no general disruption of white matter tracts in children with autism spectrum disorder.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(5), 1981 - 1986.
[PDF] (682.89 KB)
(2014).

A Common Neural Code for Perceived and Inferred Emotion.
Journal of Neuroscience. 34(48), 15997 - 16008.
[PDF] (1.91 MB)
(2014).

Reduced self-referential neural response during intergroup competition predicts competitor harm.
NeuroImage. 96(2014), 36 - 43.
[PDF] (552.85 KB)
(2014).

Thinking about seeing: Perceptual sources of knowledge are encoded in the theory of mind brain regions of sighted and blind adults.
Cognition. 133(1), 65 - 78.
[PDF] (1.19 MB)
(2014).

2013
Neural Circuit Development and Function in the Brain.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience of Theory of Mind. 3, 367 - 377.
[PDF] (2.26 MB)
(2013).

The new puzzle of Theory of Mind development.
Navigating the Social World: What Infants, Children, and Other Species Can Teach Us.
[PDF] (272.64 KB)
(2013).

Functional neuroimaging of theory of mind.
Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Developmental Social Neuroscience.
[PDF] (1.6 MB)
(2013).

Theory of Mind: A Neural Prediction Problem.
Neuron. 79(5), 836 - 848.
[PDF] (718.28 KB)
(2013).

A Noisy-Channel Account of Crosslinguistic Word-Order Variation.
Psychological Science. 24(7), 1079 - 1088.
[PDF] (1.24 MB)
(2013).

Similar Brain Activation during False Belief Tasks in a Large Sample of Adults with and without Autism.
(Gilbert, S., Ed.).PLoS ONE. 8(9), e75468.
[PDF] (1.98 MB)
(2013).

How We Know It Hurts: Item Analysis of Written Narratives Reveals Distinct Neural Responses to Others' Physical Pain and Emotional Suffering.
(Watanabe, K., Ed.).PLoS ONE. 8(4), e63085.
[PDF] (3.16 MB)
(2013).

People can understand descriptions of motion without activating visual motion brain regions.
Frontiers in Psychology. 4, 537.
[PDF] (3.05 MB)
(2013).

Decoding moral judgments from neural representations of intentions.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 5648 - 5653.
[PDF] (2.45 MB)
(2013).

2012
Thin-slice perception develops slowly.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 112(2), 257 - 264.
[PDF] (635.35 KB)
(2012).

Distinct roles of the ‘Shared Pain’ and ‘Theory of Mind’ networks in processing others’ emotional suffering.
Neuropsychologia. 50(2), 219 - 231.
[PDF] (1.71 MB)
(2012).

Matched False-Belief Performance During Verbal and Nonverbal Interference.
Cognitive Science. 36(2012), 1148 - 1156.
[PDF] (130.62 KB)
(2012).

Verbal interference suppresses exact numerical representation.
Cognitive Psychology. 64, 74 - 92.
[PDF] (640.51 KB)
(2012).

The power of being heard: The benefits of ‘perspective-giving’ in the context of intergroup conflict.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 48(4), 855 - 866.
[PDF] (677.34 KB)
(2012).

Typical Neural Representations of Action Verbs Develop without Vision.
Cerebral Cortex. 22(2), 286 - 293.
[PDF] (415.41 KB)
(2012).

Theory of Mind Performance in Children Correlates With Functional Specialization of a Brain Region for Thinking About Thoughts.
Child Development. 1853 - 1868.
[PDF] (562.08 KB)
(2012).

Teaching Replication.
Perspectives on Psychological Science. 7(6), 600 - 604.
[PDF] (614.43 KB)
(2012).

Look at this: the neural correlates of initiating and responding to bids for joint attention.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 6, 169.
[PDF] (1.26 MB)
(2012).

Social cognition in members of conflict groups: behavioural and neural responses in Arabs, Israelis and South Americans to each other's misfortunes.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 367, 717 - 730.
[PDF] (1.17 MB)
(2012).

Insights into the origins of knowledge from the cognitive neuroscience of blindness.
Cognitive Neuropsychology. 29(1-2), 56 - 84.
[PDF] (402.93 KB)
(2012).

Atypical brain activation patterns during a face-to-face joint attention game in adults with autism spectrum disorder.
Human Brain Mapping. 34(10), 2511 - 2523.
[PDF] (1.16 MB)
(2012).

Verbal interference suppresses exact numerical representation.
Cognitive Psychology. 64, 74 - 92.
[PDF] (450.67 KB)
(2012).

2011
Language processing in the occipital cortex of congenitally blind adults.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(11), 4429 - 4434.
[PDF] (400.4 KB)
(2011).

Differential selectivity for dynamic versus static information in face-selective cortical regions.
NeuroImage. 56(4), 2356 - 2363.
[PDF] (640.87 KB)
(2011).

Differential selectivity for dynamic versus static information in face-selective cortical regions.
NeuroImage. 56(4), 2356 - 2363.
[PDF] (632.79 KB)
(2011).

Associations and dissociations between default and self-reference networks in the human brain.
NeuroImage. 55(1), 225 - 232.
[PDF] (1.15 MB)
(2011).

fMRI item analysis in a theory of mind task.
NeuroImage. 55(2), 705 - 712.
[PDF] (495.53 KB)
(2011).

Anatomical connectivity patterns predict face selectivity in the fusiform gyrus.
Nature Neuroscience. 15(2), 321 - 327.
[PDF] (1.07 MB)
(2011).

Impaired theory of mind for moral judgment in high-functioning autism.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(7), 2688 - 2692.
[PDF] (257.86 KB)
(2011).

A sensitive period for language in the visual cortex: Distinct patterns of plasticity in congenitally versus late blind adults.
Brain and Language. 122(3), 162 - 170.
[PDF] (1.23 MB)
(2011).

When ignorance is no excuse: Different roles for intent across moral domains.
Cognition. 120(2), 202 - 214.
[PDF] (794.54 KB)
(2011).

Measuring the Development of Social Attention Using Free-Viewing.
Infancy. 17(4), 355 - 375.
[PDF] (487.66 KB)
(2011).

Neural evidence for “intuitive prosecution”: The use of mental state information for negative moral verdicts.
Social Neuroscience. 6(3), 302 - 315.
[PDF] (939.29 KB)
(2011).

Us and Them: Intergroup Failures of Empathy.
Current Directions in Psychological Science. 20(3), 149 - 153.
[PDF] (379.95 KB)
(2011).

2010
The right temporo-parietal junction: a specific brain region for thinking about thoughts.
Handbook of Theory of Mind.
[PDF] (225.75 KB)
(2010).

Attitudes towards the outgroup are predicted by activity in the precuneus in Arabs and Israelis.
NeuroImage. 52(4), 1704 - 1711.
[PDF] (720.52 KB)
(2010).

Live face-to-face interaction during fMRI: A new tool for social cognitive neuroscience.
NeuroImage. 50(4), 1639 - 1647.
[PDF] (1.06 MB)
(2010).

Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(15), 6753 - 6758.
[PDF] (302.85 KB)
Young_2010_PNAS.pdf (302.85 KB)
(2010).


Sensitive Period for a Multimodal Response in Human Visual Motion Area MT/MST.
Current Biology. 20(21), 1900 - 1906.
[PDF] (1.34 MB)
(2010).

Investigating the Neural and Cognitive Basis of Moral Luck: It’s Not What You Do but What You Know.
Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 11(3), 333 - 349.
[PDF] (358.34 KB)
(2010).

It’s Not Just What You Do, but What’s on Your Mind: A Review of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s “Experiments in Ethics”.
Neuroethics. 31(3), 201 - 207.
[PDF] (384.47 KB)
(2010).

Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(15), 6753 - 6758.
[PDF] (302.85 KB)
(2010).

What gets the attention of the temporo-parietal junction? An fMRI investigation of attention and theory of mind.
Neuropsychologia. 48(9), 2658 - 2664.
[PDF] (626 KB)
(2010).

Just do it? Investigating the gap between prediction and action in toddlers’ causal inferences.
Cognition. 115(1), 104 - 117.
[PDF] (414.67 KB)
(2010).

2009
The happiness of the fish: Evidence for a common theory of one's own and others' actions.
Handbook of imagination and mental simulation. 257-265.
[PDF] (139.47 KB)
(2009).

Theory of Mind (Neural Basis).
Encyclopedia of Consciousness.
[PDF] (103.86 KB)
(2009).

An fMRI Investigation of Spontaneous Mental State Inference for Moral Judgment.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 21(7), 1396 - 1405.
[PDF] (221.11 KB)
(2009).

The neural evidence for simulation is weaker than I think you think it is.
Philosophical Studies. 144(3), 447 - 456.
[PDF] (141.61 KB)
(2009).

Innocent intentions: A correlation between forgiveness for accidental harm and neural activity☆.
Neuropsychologia. 47(10), 2065 - 2072.
[PDF] (838.59 KB)
(2009).

Growing up blind does not change the neural bases of Theory of Mind.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(27), 11312 - 11317.
[PDF] (534.32 KB)
(2009).

Distinct Regions of Right Temporo-Parietal Junction Are Selective for Theory of Mind and Exogenous Attention.
(Lauwereyns, J., Ed.).PLoS ONE. 4(3), e4869.
[PDF] (522.93 KB)
(2009).

Action understanding as inverse planning.
Cognition. 113(3), 329 - 349.
[PDF] (718.57 KB)
(2009).

Brain Regions for Perceiving and Reasoning About Other People in School-Aged Children.
Child Development. 80(4), 1197 - 1209.
[PDF] (431.14 KB)
(2009).

Growing up blind does not change the neural bases of Theory of Mind.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(27), 11312 - 11317.
[PDF] (534.32 KB)
(2009).

Introduction to a Special Section of Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience.
Child Development. 80(4), 946 - 951.
[PDF] (69.42 KB)
(2009).

2008
Concepts Are More than Percepts: The Case of Action Verbs.
Journal of Neuroscience. 28(44), 11347 - 11353.
[PDF] (202.54 KB)
(2008).

The neural basis of belief encoding and integration in moral judgment.
NeuroImage. 40(4), 1912 - 1920.
[PDF] (363.71 KB)
(2008).

The influence of prior record on moral judgment.
Neuropsychologia. 46(12), 2949 - 2957.
[PDF] (1.48 MB)
(2008).

2007
The neural basis of the interaction between theory of mind and moral judgment.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(20), 8235 - 8240.
[PDF] (992.31 KB)
(2007).

Knowing who dunnit: Infants identify the causal agent in an unseen causal interaction..
Developmental Psychology. 43(1), 149 - 158.
[PDF] (600.56 KB)
(2007).

Goal Inference as Inverse Planning.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 29(29), 779 - 784.
[PDF] (201.3 KB)
(2007).

2006
Uniquely human social cognition.
Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 16(2), 235 - 239.
[PDF] (162.12 KB)
(2006).

Overlapping and non-overlapping brain regions for theory of mind and self reflection in individual subjects.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 115(3), 229 - 234.
[PDF] (377.94 KB)
(2006).

Bayesian models of human action understanding.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 18, 99 - 106.
[PDF] (159.5 KB)
(2006).

My Body or Yours? The Effect of Visual Perspective on Cortical Body Representations.
Cerebral Cortex. 16(2), 178 - 182.
[PDF] (493.15 KB)
(2006).

Divide and conquer: A defense of functional localizers.
NeuroImage. 30(4), 1088 - 1096.
[PDF] (296.13 KB)
(2006).

It's the Thought That Counts.
Psychological Science. 17(8), 692 - 699.
[PDF] (673.88 KB)
(2006).

The perception of causality in infancy.
Acta Psychologica. 123(1-2), 144 - 165.
[PDF] (362.51 KB)
(2006).

Why and how to study Theory of Mind with fMRI.
Brain Research. 1079(1), 57 - 65.
[PDF] (177.01 KB)
(2006).

Reading minds versus following rules: Dissociating theory of mind and executive control in the brain.
Social Neuroscience. 1(3-4), 284 - 298.
[PDF] (427.88 KB)
(2006).

2005
Dissociation between emotion and personality judgments: Convergent evidence from functional neuroimaging.
NeuroImage. 28(4), 770 - 777.
[PDF] (1.4 MB)
(2005).

Secret Agents: Inferences About Hidden Causes by 10- and 12-Month-Old Infants.
Psychological Science. 16(12), 995 - 1001.
[PDF] (548.7 KB)
(2005).

Making sense of another mind: The role of the right temporo-parietal junction.
Neuropsychologia. 43(10), 1391 - 1399.
[PDF] (275.42 KB)
(2005).

Against simulation: the argument from error.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 9(4), 174 - 179.
[PDF] (237.67 KB)
(2005).

2004
A region of right posterior superior temporal sulcus responds to observed intentional actions.
Neuropsychologia. 42(11), 1435 - 1446.
[PDF] (361.65 KB)
(2004).

Understanding Other Minds: Linking Developmental Psychology and Functional Neuroimaging.
Annual Review of Psychology. 55(1), 87 - 124.
[PDF] (347.58 KB)
(2004).

2003
People thinking about thinking people: The role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind”.
NeuroImage. 19(4), 1835 - 1842.
[PDF] (228.81 KB)
(2003).
