Conference paper
TIME-TRAVELLING AND MIND-TRAVELLING: EXAMINING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN SELF-PROJECTION
Jayne Cullen
; University of Cambridge Medical School, Cambridge, UK
Marie Buda
; BCNI, University of Cambridge, UK
Gabrielle Darby
; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
Jon S. Simons
; BCNI, University of Cambridge, UK
Abstract
It has recently been suggested that memory and theory of mind may share the characteristic of mentally projecting oneself into
another time or place to imagine alternative perspectives. This study examines this possible relationship by investigating individual
differences in performance on a reality monitoring task and two mentalising tasks: the faux pas task and the reading the mind in the
eyes test. Consistent with recent functional neuroimaging studies that have observed activity during reality monitoring tasks in the
same region of prefrontal cortex that was activated in previous mentalising studies, a significant positive correlation in performance
was observed between memory for agency and faux-pas recognition. No correlation between memory and performance on the
reading the mind in the eyes test was observed. The significance of these findings is discussed with respect to the suggestion that
memory and theory of mind rely on a common set of processes.
Keywords
self projection; theory of mind; reality monitoring
Hrčak ID:
264857
URI
Publication date:
1.9.2011.
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