Rebecca Saxe

TL;DR: A large-scale assessment suggests that experimental reproducibility in psychology leaves a lot to be desired, and correlational tests suggest that replication success was better predicted by the strength of original evidence than by characteristics of the original and replication teams.

TL;DR: The studies reported here establish for the first time that a region in the human temporo-parietal junction (here called the TPJ-M) is involved specifically in reasoning about the contents of another person's mind.

TL;DR: In posterior temporal cortex, the extrastriate body area is associated with perceiving the form of other human bodies and a distinct region at the temporo-parietal junction supports the uniquely human ability to reason about the contents of mental states.

TL;DR: The right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ) was recruited selectively for the attribution of mental states, and not for other socially relevantfacts about a person, and the response of the RTPJ was modulated by the congruence or incongruence of multiple relevant facts about the target's mind.

TL;DR: A computational framework based on Bayesian inverse planning for modeling human action understanding represents an intuitive theory of intentional agents' behavior based on the principle of rationality, and provides quantitative evidence for an approximately rational inference mechanism in human goal inference within the simplified stimulus paradigm.