Rebecca Saxe

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Rebecca Saxe is affiliated with the following schools: Harvard University, York University, Newcastle University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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According to Wikipedia, Rebecca Saxe is a professor of cognitive neuroscience and associate Dean of Science at MIT. She is an associate member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and a board member of the Center for Open Science. She is known for her research on the neural basis of social cognition. She received her BA from Oxford University where she studied Psychology and Philosophy, and her PhD from MIT in Cognitive Science. She is the granddaughter of Canadian coroner and politician Morton Shulman.

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Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science (2015) (5547)
People thinking about thinking people The role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind” (2003) (2023)
Uniquely human social cognition (2006) (858)
Making sense of another mind: The role of the right temporo-parietal junction (2005) (851)
Action understanding as inverse planning (2009) (742)
Understanding other minds: linking developmental psychology and functional neuroimaging. (2004) (691)
The neural basis of the interaction between theory of mind and moral judgment (2007) (534)
Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments (2010) (502)
Divide and conquer: A defense of functional localizers (2006) (497)
Look at this: the neural correlates of initiating and responding to bids for joint attention (2012) (493)
It's the Thought That Counts (2006) (486)
Us and Them: Intergroup Failures of Empathy (2011) (452)
A region of right posterior superior temporal sulcus responds to observed intentional actions (2004) (399)
Language processing in the occipital cortex of congenitally blind adults (2011) (361)
Associations and dissociations between default and self-reference networks in the human brain (2011) (350)
Theory of Mind: A Neural Prediction Problem (2013) (341)
Differential selectivity for dynamic versus static information in face-selective cortical regions (2011) (336)
Live face-to-face interaction during fMRI: A new tool for social cognitive neuroscience (2010) (295)
Against simulation: the argument from error (2005) (286)
Overlapping and non-overlapping brain regions for theory of mind and self reflection in individual subjects. (2006) (282)
Impaired theory of mind for moral judgment in high-functioning autism (2011) (278)
Anatomical connectivity patterns predict face-selectivity in the fusiform gyrus (2011) (274)
Rational quantitative attribution of beliefs, desires and percepts in human mentalizing (2017) (268)
fMRI item analysis in a theory of mind task (2011) (264)
Functional Organization of Social Perception and Cognition in the Superior Temporal Sulcus (2015) (257)
The neural basis of belief encoding and integration in moral judgment (2008) (252)
Their pain gives us pleasure: How intergroup dynamics shape empathic failures and counter-empathic responses. (2014) (251)
My body or yours? The effect of visual perspective on cortical body representations. (2006) (237)
Contributions of episodic retrieval and mentalizing to autobiographical thought: Evidence from functional neuroimaging, resting-state connectivity, and fMRI meta-analyses (2014) (230)
Bayesian Theory of Mind: Modeling Joint Belief-Desire Attribution (2011) (229)
Distinct Regions of Right Temporo-Parietal Junction Are Selective for Theory of Mind and Exogenous Attention (2009) (223)
Innocent intentions: A correlation between forgiveness for accidental harm and neural activity (2009) (212)
Concepts Are More than Percepts: The Case of Action Verbs (2008) (211)
Organization of high-level visual cortex in human infants (2017) (207)
An fMRI Investigation of Spontaneous Mental State Inference for Moral Judgment (2009) (205)
What gets the attention of the temporo-parietal junction? An fMRI investigation of attention and theory of mind (2010) (202)
When ignorance is no excuse: Different roles for intent across moral domains (2011) (201)
Brain regions for perceiving and reasoning about other people in school-aged children. (2009) (200)
The power of being heard: The benefits of ‘perspective-giving’ in the context of intergroup conflict (2012) (190)
Reading minds versus following rules: Dissociating theory of mind and executive control in the brain (2006) (183)
Development of the social brain from age three to twelve years (2018) (177)
Decoding moral judgments from neural representations of intentions (2013) (176)
A Noisy-Channel Account of Crosslinguistic Word-Order Variation (2013) (162)
Theory of mind performance in children correlates with functional specialization of a brain region for thinking about thoughts. (2012) (155)
Measuring the Development of Social Attention Using Free-Viewing. (2012) (148)
Similar Brain Activation during False Belief Tasks in a Large Sample of Adults with and without Autism (2013) (146)
Sensitive Period for a Multimodal Response in Human Visual Motion Area MT/MST (2010) (144)
Secret Agents (2005) (144)
Goal Inference as Inverse Planning (2007) (142)
Teaching Replication (2012) (139)
Neural Representations of Emotion Are Organized around Abstract Event Features (2015) (133)
Structural Connectivity Fingerprints Predict Cortical Selectivity for Multiple Visual Categories across Cortex. (2016) (129)
The perception of causality in infancy. (2006) (129)
Bayesian models of human action understanding (2005) (123)
A Common Neural Code for Perceived and Inferred Emotion (2014) (121)
Why and how to study Theory of Mind with fMRI (2006) (118)
Distinct roles of the ‘Shared Pain’ and ‘Theory of Mind’ networks in processing others’ emotional suffering (2012) (109)
Knowing who dunnit: Infants identify the causal agent in an unseen causal interaction. (2007) (108)
Investigating the Neural and Cognitive Basis of Moral Luck: It’s Not What You Do but What You Know (2010) (107)
Growing up blind does not change the neural bases of Theory of Mind (2009) (103)
Typical neural representations of action verbs develop without vision. (2012) (102)
Just do it? Investigating the gap between prediction and action in toddlers’ causal inferences (2010) (99)
Dissociation between emotion and personality judgments: Convergent evidence from functional neuroimaging (2005) (99)
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Provides New Constraints on Theories of the Psychological Refractory Period (2004) (96)
A sensitive period for language in the visual cortex: Distinct patterns of plasticity in congenitally versus late blind adults (2011) (95)
Differences in the right inferior longitudinal fasciculus but no general disruption of white matter tracts in children with autism spectrum disorder (2014) (92)
Atypical brain activation patterns during a face‐to‐face joint attention game in adults with autism spectrum disorder (2013) (91)
Social cognition in members of conflict groups: behavioural and neural responses in Arabs, Israelis and South Americans to each other's misfortunes (2012) (90)
Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger (2020) (89)
The influence of prior record on moral judgment (2008) (87)
Localizing Pain Matrix and Theory of Mind networks with both verbal and non-verbal stimuli (2015) (80)
“Visual” Cortex Responds to Spoken Language in Blind Children (2015) (72)
Replications of implicit theory of mind tasks with varying representational demands (2017) (70)
Parochial Empathy Predicts Reduced Altruism and the Endorsement of Passive Harm (2017) (70)
Mentalizing regions represent distributed, continuous, and abstract dimensions of others’ beliefs (2017) (69)
Attitudes towards the outgroup are predicted by activity in the precuneus in Arabs and Israelis (2010) (67)
Reduced self-referential neural response during intergroup competition predicts competitor harm (2014) (64)
A Second Look at Automatic Theory of Mind (2015) (63)
Verbal interference suppresses exact numerical representation (2011) (63)
Neural evidence for “intuitive prosecution”: The use of mental state information for negative moral verdicts (2011) (62)
Theory of Mind (Neural Basis) (2009) (61)
Editorial: The neuroscience of theory of mind (2006) (61)
Social Origins of Cortical Face Areas (2018) (58)
Denying Humanity: The Distinct Neural Correlates of Blatant Dehumanization (2018) (54)
Learning a commonsense moral theory (2017) (53)
Functional neuroimaging of theory of mind (2013) (53)
For Love or Money: A Common Neural Currency for Social and Monetary Reward (2008) (52)
When minds matter for moral judgment: intent information is neurally encoded for harmful but not impure acts. (2016) (52)
The Neural Bases of Directed and Spontaneous Mental State Attributions to Group Agents (2014) (49)
Empathic control through coordinated interaction of amygdala, theory of mind and extended pain matrix brain regions (2015) (48)
Minding the Gap: Narrative Descriptions about Mental States Attenuate Parochial Empathy (2015) (48)
Formalizing emotion concepts within a Bayesian model of theory of mind. (2017) (45)
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience of Theory of Mind (2013) (43)
Insights into the origins of knowledge from the cognitive neuroscience of blindness (2012) (42)
Shindigs, brunches, and rodeos: The neural basis of event words (2014) (40)
Structural Connectivity of the Developing Human Amygdala (2015) (38)
Single-neuronal predictions of others’ beliefs in humans (2020) (36)
Five-month-old infants know humans are solid, like inanimate objects (2006) (36)
Thinking about seeing: Perceptual sources of knowledge are encoded in the theory of mind brain regions of sighted and blind adults (2014) (35)
Why has the COVID-19 pandemic increased support for Universal Basic Income? (2020) (32)
Moral Universals and Individual Differences (2011) (31)
Selective responses to faces, scenes, and bodies in the ventral visual pathway of infants (2021) (30)
The neural evidence for simulation is weaker than I think you think it is (2009) (30)
Author Correction: Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger (2020) (30)
Occipital Cortex of Blind Individuals Is Functionally Coupled with Executive Control Areas of Frontal Cortex (2015) (30)
Development of predictive responses in theory of mind brain regions. (2018) (29)
How We Know It Hurts: Item Analysis of Written Narratives Reveals Distinct Neural Responses to Others' Physical Pain and Emotional Suffering (2013) (29)
Matched False-Belief Performance During Verbal and Nonverbal Interference (2012) (28)
Multivariate pattern dependence (2017) (28)
Cross-situational Word Learning Respects Mutual Exclusivity (2009) (26)
Measuring and Modeling Nonlinear Interactions Between Brain Regions with fMRI (2016) (25)
There’s more to “sparkle” than meets the eye: Knowledge of vision and light verbs among congenitally blind and sighted individuals (2019) (25)
The New Puzzle of Theory of Mind Development (2013) (25)
Using individual functional channels of interest to study cortical development with fNIRS. (2018) (24)
Preferences for redistribution are sensitive to perceived luck, social homogeneity, war and scarcity (2019) (24)
Learning in Infancy Is Active, Endogenously Motivated, and Depends on the Prefrontal Cortices (2020) (23)
Representational similarity precedes category selectivity in the developing ventral visual pathway (2019) (21)
Thin-slice perception develops slowly. (2012) (21)
Amygdala lesions do not compromise the cortical network for false-belief reasoning (2015) (21)
Cortical responses to dynamic emotional facial expressions generalize across stimuli, and are sensitive to task-relevance, in adults with and without Autism (2018) (21)
The neuroscience of unmet social needs (2019) (18)
Reduced neural selectivity for mental states in deaf children with delayed exposure to sign language (2019) (16)
The Happiness of the Fish: Evidence for a Common Theory of One's Own and Others' Actions (2008) (14)
People can understand descriptions of motion without activating visual motion brain regions (2013) (12)
Processing communicative facial and vocal cues in the superior temporal sulcus (2020) (12)
Theory of Mind for you, and for me: behavioral and neural similarities and differences in thinking about beliefs of the self and other (2011) (11)
Multivariate pattern connectivity (2016) (11)
Neural correlates of social perception: The posterior superior temporal sulcus is modulated by action rationality, but not animacy (2012) (11)
Directed network discovery with dynamic network modelling (2017) (11)
Do You See What I See? The Neural Bases of Joint Attention (2013) (10)
Acute stress alters neural patterns of value representation for others (2019) (10)
The Role of Intent for Distinct Moral Domains (2011) (10)
Continuity in the neural system supporting children’s theory of mind development: Longitudinal links between task-independent EEG and task-dependent fMRI (2019) (10)
Introduction to a special section of developmental social cognitive neuroscience. (2009) (9)
Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions. (2019) (9)
Tuning forks in the mind: Reply to Goldman and Sebanz (2005) (8)
Response patterns in the developing social brain are organized by social and emotion features and disrupted in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (2019) (8)
Hybrid vigour: Reply to Mitchell (2005) (8)
Theory of Mind brain regions are sensitive to the content, not the structural complexity, of belief attributions (2011) (8)
Illuminating the conceptual structure of the space of moral violations with searchlight representational similarity analysis (2017) (8)
The Development of Joint Belief-Desire Inferences (2012) (8)
Early concepts of intimacy: Young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships (2022) (8)
Intersubject MVPD: Empirical comparison of fMRI denoising methods for connectivity analysis (2018) (7)
Decoding task and stimulus representations in face-responsive cortex (2016) (7)
Parts‐based representations of perceived face movements in the superior temporal sulcus (2019) (7)
Just do it? Toddlers' ability to integrate prediction and action (2010) (7)
Bayesian Theory of Mind (2010) (7)
A size‐adaptive 32‐channel array coil for awake infant neuroimaging at 3 Tesla MRI (2021) (7)
It’s Not Just What You Do, but What’s on Your Mind: A Review of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s “Experiments in Ethics” (2010) (7)
Moral status of accidents (2016) (7)
Theory of Mind (2013) (7)
Interaction versus observation: A finer look at this distinction and its importance to autism (2013) (7)
Are some cultures more mind-minded in their moral judgements than others? (2021) (6)
Giving the Underdog a Leg Up: A Counternarrative of Nonviolent Resistance Improves Sustained Third-Party Support of a Disempowered Group (2021) (6)
FMRI provides new constraints on theories of the Psychological Refractory Period (2003) (6)
What explains variability in brain regions associate with Theory of Mind in a large sample of neurotypical adults and adults with ASD? (2012) (6)
Recognition of identity and expressions as integrated processes (2019) (5)
Author Correction: Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger (2022) (5)
Political preferences and threat perception: opportunities for neuroimaging and developmental research (2020) (5)
Visual Orientation in a Mirror World Tilted 90° (2005) (5)
Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults (2021) (4)
Seeing Other Minds in 3D (2018) (4)
Using child‐friendly movie stimuli to study the development of face, place, and object regions from age 3 to 12 years (2021) (4)
Early signatures of and developmental change in brain regions for theory of mind (2020) (4)
https: //journals.lww.com/cogbehavneurol/fulltext/2005/03000/Impaired__Affective_Theory_of_Mind__Is_Associated.7.aspx "Affective Theory of Mind" and the Function of the Ventral Medial Prefrontal Cortex. (2018) (3)
Thinking in Patterns: using multi-voxel pattern analyses to find neural correlates of moral judgment in neurotypical and ASD populations (2012) (3)
Discovering the conceptual primitives (2008) (3)
What Neuroscience Can Reveal about Cognition and Its Origins (2016) (2)
Going beyond the headlines: Narratives mitigate intergroup empathy bias (2012) (2)
Au th or ' s pe rs on al co py The perception of causality in infancy (2006) (2)
‘If men were angels, no government would be necessary’: the intuitive theory of social motivation and preference for authoritarian leaders (2021) (2)
Why has the COVID-19 pandemic increased support for Universal Basic Income? (2021) (2)
“What was I thinking?” Developmental and neural connections between theory of mind, memory and the self (1993) (2)
How Should We Manage Peer Review and Why? (2012) (2)
Linking Models of Theory of Mind and Measures of Human Brain Activity (2021) (2)
To peek and to peer: "visual" verb meanings are largely unaffected by congenital blindnsess (2012) (2)
Toddlers Connect Emotional Responses to Epistemic States (2018) (1)
Face-Selective Responses Present in Multiple Regions of the Human Infant Brain (2021) (1)
Why we read literary criticism Lisa Zunshine Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (2006) (1)
Differential selectivity for dynamic versus static information in face selective regions (2011) (1)
Theory of Mind network encodes how you know what you know in blind and sighted adults (2012) (1)
No Change in the Size of the Right Fusiform Face Area between Age Five and Adulthood (2010) (1)
Planning with Theory of Mind (2022) (1)
On ignorance and being wrong: Reply to Gordon (2005) (1)
Category-sensitive visual regions in human infants (2016) (1)
to each other ' s misfortunes and neural responses in Arabs , Israelis and South Americans Social cognition in members of conflict groups : behavioural (2012) (1)
What functional magnetic resonance imaging can tell us about theory of mind (2003) (1)
How Language Facilitates Theory of Mind Development: Behavioral and FMRI Evidence from Individuals with Delayed Access to Language (2018) (1)
A generative model of people's intuitive theory of emotions: inverse planning in rich social games (2018) (1)
Data and R code for analysis, all final studies (2019) (1)
Infants use imitation but not comforting or social synchrony to evaluate those in social interactions (2020) (1)
A First Step in Combining Cognitive Event Features and Natural Language Representations to Predict Emotions (2017) (1)
Deep networks trained to recognize facial expressions spontaneously develop representations of face identity (2019) (0)
Left-hemisphere cortical language regions respond equally to dialogue and monologue (2023) (0)
Studying the Moral Mind with MRI (2016) (0)
Habituation Reflects Optimal Exploration Over Noisy Perceptual Samples. (2022) (0)
Face selectivity in human infant ventral temporal cortex. (2020) (0)
Reduced neural selectivity for mental states in deaf children with delayed exposure to sign language (2020) (0)
Directed Network Discovery with Dynamic Network Modeling (2016) (0)
Brain mechanisms underlying the drive to engage in social interactions (2018) (0)
Reduced Selectivity for Mental States in Deaf Children with Delayed Exposure to Language (2018) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Cohort effects in children's delay of gratification. (2019) (0)
Intersubject multivariate connectivity reveals optimal denoising strategies for visual category-specific regions (2019) (0)
There’s more to “sparkle” than meets the eye: Knowledge of vision and light verbs among sighted and congenitally blind individuals. (2019) (0)
Early emergence and later development of face, scene, and object regions revealed by natural vision (2021) (0)
Theory of Mind Booklet task (2017) (0)
Israelis and Palestinians receive asymmetric benefits from perspective-taking and “perspective-giving” during online encounters (2011) (0)
fMRI evidence for sensitivity to coherence and context in the theory of mind network (2012) (0)
Spontaneous Learning of Face Identity in Expression-Trained Deep Nets (2022) (0)
Success in Theory of Mind - eScholarship (2010) (0)
Advantages and limitations of representing groups in terms of recursive utilities (2022) (0)
Replication of McKinstry, Dale, & Spivey (2008, PS) (2013) (0)
Reduced neural sensitivity to online social interactions in autism (2013) (0)
Science Perspectives on Psychological Teaching Replication on Behalf Of: Association for Psychological Science (2012) (0)
Fantasies that coincide with reality (2007) (0)
task code and stimuli (2020) (0)
Amaral Identity in the Monkey Amygdala Neural Responses to Facial Expression and Face (2007) (0)
Experience Modifies Neural Basis of Language: Evidence from Early-Blind Children (2011) (0)
Longitudinal and Cross-sectional fMRI Studies of Social Brain Development (2017) (0)
Exploring the functional organization of the superior temporal sulcus with a broad set of naturalistic stimuli (2014) (0)
Measuring neural correlates of infant statistical learning using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (2020) (0)
Verbal interference suppresses exact numerical representation : online lexical encoding as an account of cross-linguistic differences in cognition (2011) (0)
Challenging the Classical View: Recognition of Identity and Expression as Integrated Processes (2023) (0)
Development of the social brain from age three to twelve years (2018) (0)
Exploration and Discovery in Children with Autism (2013) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of How adults' actions, outcomes, and testimony affect preschoolers' persistence. (2019) (0)
Face Selectivity in Social (But Not Perceptual) Areas of the Infant Brain (2020) (0)
Support for social transfers (2018) (0)
Universal basic income: psychological obstacles and pandemic times (2020) (0)
Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others (2022) (0)
Humans measure algorithmic complexity to guide engagement with event sequences (2020) (0)
Replication of Farrell (2008, JEP:LMC, Study 2) (2012) (0)
Infants form expectations about others' emotions based on context and perceptual access (2012) (0)
Ev'rybody slips a little. (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Children's fairness in two Chinese schools: A combined ethnographic and experimental study. (2019) (0)
Rationalization: Why, when, and what for? (2020) (0)
The Fast of Esther 1996 (1996) (0)
Learning in Infancy is Active, Endogenously Motivated, and Depends on Prefrontal Cortices (2020) (0)
In Press in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2008) (0)
Perceiving and pursuing legitimate power (2022) (0)
Neural Basis of Event Words (2011) (0)
Emotion attributions echo the structure of people's intuitive theory of psychology (2019) (0)
Replication of Palmer & Ghose (2008, PS) (2013) (0)
Preliminary evidence for selective cortical responses to music in one-month-old infants. (2023) (0)
Success in Theory of Mind (2010) (0)
Intuitive theories of human nature and their relationship to politics (2020) (0)
Abstracts of the Brains , Minds , and Machines 2014 Summer School (2014) (0)
Mind theorist. Interview by Gareth Cook. (2012) (0)
Are some cultures more mind-minded in their moral judgements than others? (2021) (0)
Object Responses in the Ventral and Dorsal Pathway of Human Infants (2021) (0)
Human mentalizing supports rational quantitative attribution of beliefs , desires , and percepts (2017) (0)
Title : The Development of Joint Belief (2012) (0)
data, analysis code and ROIs (2020) (0)
Understanding as Inverse Planning Appendix (2009) (0)
Shindigs, brunches, and rodeos: The neural basis of event words (2013) (0)

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