Selected publications download
Baker, C. L., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Saxe, R. R. (2009). Action understanding as inverse planning Cognition
Saxe, R. (2009). The happiness of the fish- Evidence for a common theory of ones own and others actions Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation
Saxe, R. (2009). The neural evidence for simulation is weaker than I think you think it is Philosophical Studies
Scholz, J., Triantafyllou, C., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Brown, E. N., & Saxe, R. (2009). Distinct regions of right temporo-parietal junction are selective for theory of mind and exogenous attention PLoS ONE
Young, L., & Saxe, R. (2009). Innocent intentions. A correlation between forgiveness for accidental harm and neural activity Neuropsychologia
Young, L.. & Saxe, R. (2009). An fMRI investigation of spontaneous mental state inference for moral judgements Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Bedny, M., Caramazza, A., Grossman, E., Pascual-Leone, A., & Saxe, R. (2008). Concepts are more than percepts - the case of action verbs The Journal of Neuroscience
Kliemann, D., Young, L., Scholz, J., & Saxe, R. (2008). The influence of prior record on moral judgement. Neuropsychologia
Young, L., & Saxe, R. (2008). The neural basis of belief encoding and integration in moral judgment Neuroimage
Baker, C.L., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Saxe, R. R. (2007). Goal inference as inverse planning Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Saxe, R., Tzelnic, T., & Carey, S. (2007). Knowing who-dunnit- infants identify the causal agent in an unseen causal interaction Developmental Psychology
Young, L., Cushman, F., Hauser, M., & Saxe, R. (2007) The neural basis of the interaction between theory of mind and moral judgment PNAS
Baker, C.L., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Saxe, R.R. (2006). Bayesian models of human action understanding Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems - 18
Saxe, R. (2006). Uniquely Human Social Cognition Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Saxe, R. (2006). Why and how to study Theory of Mind with fMRI Brain Research
Saxe, R., & Carey, S. (2006). The perception of Causality in Infancy Acta Psychologica
Saxe, R., & Powell, L. (2006). Its the thought that counts Psychological Science
Saxe, R., Brett, M., & Kanwisher, N. (2006). Divide and Conquer- a defense of functional localizers Neuroimage
Saxe, R., Moran, J., Scholz, J., & Gabrieli J. (2006) Overlapping and non-overlapping brain regions for theory of mind and self reflection in individual subjects Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Saxe, R., Schulz, L., & Jiang, Y. (2006). Reading Minds versus Following Rules Social Neuroscience
Heberlein, A., & Saxe, R. (2005). Dissociation between emotion and personality judgments- Convergent evidence from functional neuroimaging Neuroimage
Saxe, R. (2005). Against Simulation- the Argument from Error Trends in Cognitive Science
Saxe, R., & Wexler, A. (2005). Making sense of another mind- the role of the right temporo-parietal junction Neuropsychologia
Saxe, R., Jamal, N., & Powell, L. (2005). My body or yours- The effect of visual perspective on cortical body representation Cerebral Cortex
Saxe, R., Tenenbaum, J., & Carey, S. (2005). Secret Agents- Inferences about hidden causes by 10- and 12-month-old infants Psychological Science
Saxe, R., Carey, S., & Kanwisher, N. (2004). Understanding other minds- linking developmental psychology and functional neuroimaging Annual Review of Psychology
Saxe, R., Xiao, D.K., Kovacs, G., Perrett, D.I., & Kanwisher, N. (2004). A region of right posterior superior temporal sulcus responds to observed intentional actions Neuropsychologia
Saxe, R., & Kanwisher, N. (2003). People thinking about thinking people- fMRI studies of Theory of Mind Neuroimage
Manuscripts in Press download
Saxe, R. (in press). Theory of mind - neural basis Encyclopedia of Consciousness
Essays and Reviewsdownload
Saxe, Oatley., Emotions, Science and Literature. (Literary Review of Canada).
Your Brain: Flexible or Hard-Wired? A new book's claims about brain plasticity may be overstated. [Review - The Brain That Changes Itself] 
Reading Your Mind- How our brains help us understand other people - Boston Review 
An introduction to Cognitive Science of Moral reasoning - Boston Review 
The Forbidden Experiment: What can we learn from the wild child? - Boston Review 



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