TY - JOUR AU - AB - OPINION ARTICLE published: 08 October 2014 HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00789 Self-other control: a candidate mechanism for social cognitive function Sophie Sowden* and Punit Shah MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK *Correspondence: sophie.sowden@kcl.ac.uk Edited by: James W. Moore, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Reviewed by: Jennifer Louise Cook, University College London, UK Keywords: self-other control, social cognition, autism, schizophrenia, right temporoparietal junction, neuropsychological markers Despite ever-growing interest in the “social 1996), and self and other representations Sommerville, 2003; Brass and Heyes, 2005; brain” and the search for the neural of mental and affective states are necessary Spengler et al., 2009a). underpinnings of social cognition, we are for theory of mind and empathy, respec- A task now readily used as a behavioral yet to fully understand the basic neu- tively (Decety and Grèzes, 2006; Brass and index of self-other control is that of the rocognitive mechanisms underlying com- Spengler, 2008; Iacoboni, 2009). Within control of imitation (Figure 1; Brass et al., plex social behaviors. One such candidate each of these domains of social cognition 2001, 2005, 2009; Spengler et al., 2009a; mechanism is the control of neural rep- a form TI - Self-other control: a candidate mechanism for social cognitive function JF - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience DO - 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00789 DA - 2014-10-08 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/self-other-control-a-candidate-mechanism-for-social-cognitive-function-BRWPgsCKxQ DP - DeepDyve ER -