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Learn How We Think About Others from Blind Saturday, June 27, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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Human beings constantly make inferences about other people's state of mind, usually without even realizing they are doing it. Cognitive scientists call this ability "theory of mind," and until recently, not much has been known about the brain mechanisms underlying it. A new paper by MIT neuroscientists suggests that the process does not involve actually imagining yourself in the other person's position, as some scientists have theorized. (source: web.mit.edu)
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