Inferences regarding oneself and others in the human brain

Abstract

The human brain can infer one’s own and other individuals’ mental states through metacognition and mentalizing, respectively. A new study in PLOS Biology has implicated distinct brain regions of the medial prefrontal cortex (PFC) in metacognition and mentalizing. The human brain can infer one’s own and other individuals’ mental states through metacognition and mentalizing, respectively. This Primer explores a new study in PLOS Biology that implicates distinct brain regions of the medial prefrontal cortex in metacognition and mentalizing.