Philipp Kanske and collaborators. NeuroImage 122:6–19. Primary behavioural validation and neuroimaging; emotionality and mental-state reasoning manipulated independently.
Philipp Kanske Created 2026-10-25 Updated 2026-11-05
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