Neural Basis of Mentalizing

Michael Gilead is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research utilizes neuroimaging, experimental, and big-data methodologies to investigate humans’ symbolic cognition and the process of symbolic interaction. He has authored papers on topics such as mentalizing, mental simulation, language and cognition, emotion, and decision making. He is the recipient of the APS Rising Star award.Kevin N. Ochsner is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. His research interests include the psychological and neural processes involved in emotion, self-control, and person perception. His teaching includes seminars on social cognitive neuroscience as well as a lecture course on experimental psychological methods for studying emotion and social cognition. Ochsner is a recipient of the Young Investigator Award from The Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Columbia University’s Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award, and the APA Division 3 New Investigator Award.

• 1. A Guide to The Neural Bases of Mentalizing.- 2. Mapping mentalising in the brain.- 3. Early Theory of Mind development - Are infants inherently altercentric?.- 4. Towards the Integration of Social Cognition and Social Motivation in Autism Spectrum Disorder.- 5. Self-Other Distinction.- 6. The evolution of mentalizing in humans and other primates.- 7. Mentalizing in Non-Human Primates.- 8. Empathic accuracy: Empirical overview and clinical applications.- 9. Empathic accuracy: Lessons from the perception of contextualized real-life emotional expressions.- 10. Flexible social cognition: A context-dependent failure to mentalize.- 11. Linking models of theory of mind and measures of human brain activity.- 12. Simulation, Predictive Coding, and the Shared World.- 13. Mental Files and Teleology.- 14. The organization of social knowledge is tuned for prediction.- 15. Computational models of mentalizing.- 16. FromNeurons to Knowing: Implications of Theoretical Approaches for Conceptualizing and Studying the Neural Bases of Social Understanding.- 17. The Tree of Social Cognition: Hierarchically Organized Capacities of Mentalizing.- 18. The cognitive basis of mindreading.- 19. The Neural Basis and Representation of Social Attributions.- 20. The Conceptual Content of Mental Activity.- 21. The role(s) of language in Theory of Mind.- 22. Constructive Episodic Simulation: Cognitive and Neural Processes.- 23. Proactive by Default.- 24. Computational approaches to mentalizing during observational learning and strategic social interactions.- 25. Mentalizing in value-based social decision-making: shaping expectations and social norms.- 26. Mentalizing in Value Based Vicarious Learning  .- 27. An examination of accurate versus “biased” mentalizing in moral and economic decision-making.- 28. The role of morality in social cognition.- 29.An interbrain approach for understanding empathy: the contribution of empathy to interpersonal emotion regulation .- 30. The Role of Mentalizing in Communication Behaviors.- 31. Tangled Representations of Self and Others in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex.- 32. Why Don’t You Like Me? The Role of the Mentalizing Network in Social Rejection.- 33. Putting the “me” in “mentalizing”: Multiple constructs describing self versus other during mentalizing and implications for social anxiety disorder.- 34. The self–other distinction in psychopathology: Recent developments from a mentalizing perspective.