Left inferior parietal lobe engagement in social cognition and language

• Theory of mind and language related processing facets are unlikely to be clearly dissociable in the LPL. • Cluster 1 and 2 in the ventral LPL were both congruently associated with social-cognitive and language tasks, yet in distinct functional modules. • Cluster 3 and cluster 4 in the dorsal LPL s...
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• Theory of mind and language related processing facets are unlikely to be clearly dissociable in the LPL. • Cluster 1 and 2 in the ventral LPL were both congruently associated with social-cognitive and language tasks, yet in distinct functional modules. • Cluster 3 and cluster 4 in the dorsal LPL showed neither connectional nor functional evidence for a domain-specific involvement in either social or language cognitive processes. Ausführliche Beschreibung