TY  - JOUR
AU  - Krall, Sarah C.
AU  - Volz, Lukas J.
AU  - Oberwelland, Eileen
AU  - Grefkes, Christian
AU  - Fink, Gereon R.
AU  - Konrad, Kerstin
TI  - The right temporoparietal junction in attention and social interaction: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study
JO  - Human brain mapping
VL  - 37
IS  - 2
SN  - 1065-9471
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Wiley-Liss
M1  - FZJ-2016-02202
SP  - 796 - 807
PY  - 2016
AB  - The right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) has been associated with the ability to reorient attention to unexpected stimuli and the capacity to understand others' mental states (theory of mind [ToM]/false belief). Using activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis we previously unraveled that the anterior rTPJ is involved in both, reorienting of attention and ToM, possibly indicating a more general role in attention shifting. Here, we used neuronavigated transcranial magnetic stimulation to directly probe the role of the rTPJ across attentional reorienting and false belief. Task performance in a visual cueing paradigm and false belief cartoon task was investigated after application of continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) over anterior rTPJ (versus vertex, for control). We found that attentional reorienting was significantly impaired after rTPJ cTBS compared with control. For the false belief task, error rates in trials demanding a shift in mental state significantly increased. Of note, a significant positive correlation indicated a close relation between the stimulation effect on attentional reorienting and false belief trials. Our findings extend previous neuroimaging evidence by indicating an essential overarching role of the anterior rTPJ for both cognitive functions, reorienting of attention and ToM
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000370243000027
C6  - pmid:26610283
DO  - DOI:10.1002/hbm.23068
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/807860
ER  -