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Raymond A. Mar

Researcher at York University

Publications -  72
Citations -  8723

Raymond A. Mar is an academic researcher from York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Narrative & Reading (process). The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 63 publications receiving 7579 citations. Previous affiliations of Raymond A. Mar include University of Toronto & King's College, Aberdeen.

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The common neural basis of autobiographical memory, prospection, navigation, theory of mind, and the default mode: A quantitative meta-analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, a core brain network has been proposed to underlie a number of different processes, including remembering, prospection, navigation, and theory of mind, which has been argued to represent self-projection.
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The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire: Scale development and initial validation of a factor-analytic solution to multiple empathy measures

TL;DR: The Toronto Empathy Questionnaires demonstrated strong convergent validity, correlating positively with behavioral measures of social decoding, self-report measures of empathy, and negatively with a measure of Autism symptomatology, and it exhibited good internal consistency and high test–retest reliability.
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The Neural Bases of Social Cognition and Story Comprehension

TL;DR: A quantitative meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies pertaining to ToM, using the activation-likelihood estimation (ALE) approach, reveals a core mentalizing network that includes areas not typically noted by previous reviews.
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The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience

TL;DR: The authors argue that literary narratives have a more important purpose than entertainment, and they offer models or simulations of the social world via abstraction, simplification, and compression, which facilitates the communication and understanding of social information and makes it more compelling.

The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of

TL;DR: It is argued that literary narratives have a more important purpose and offer models or simulations of the social world via abstraction, simplification, and compression, which facilitates the communication and understanding of social information and makes it more compelling, achieving a form of learning through experience.