Philipp Kanske studies social-affective and social-cognitive processes. His EmpaToM study independently varied emotional content and the need to infer a speaker’s mental state, combining behavioral measures with neuroimaging. The design helps separate empathy from theory of mind rather than assuming that a response to an emotional story measures both. [ref]
Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain-behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind by Philipp Kanske and others. 2015, task construction, independent manipulations and neural comparisons
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