The brain represents people as the mental states they habitually experience

Mark A. Thornton; Miriam E. Weaverdyck; Diana I. Tamir

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10309-7

Nature Communications (May 2019)

The brain represents people as the mental states they habitually experience

Mark A. Thornton,
Miriam E. Weaverdyck,
Diana I. Tamir

Affiliations

Mark A. Thornton: Department of Psychology, Princeton University
Miriam E. Weaverdyck: Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Diana I. Tamir: Department of Psychology, Princeton University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10309-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Social life requires us to store information about each person’s unique disposition. Here, the authors show that the brain represents people as the sums of the mental states that those people are believed to experience.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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