{"id":8389,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/medial_-pre-_frontal_cortex\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:11","slug":"medial_-pre-_frontal_cortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/medial_-pre-_frontal_cortex\/","title":{"rendered":"Medial (pre-) frontal cortex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the brain situated at the front, right in the center of the head, which is involved in high-level processes such as thinking about oneself and other people, and especially taking the perspective of others and determining their goals (i.e., &#8216;mind reading&#8217;. &nbsp;It becomes more activated while the person is solving theory of mind tasks and performing imitation tasks that involve inferring others&#8217; goals and intentions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"autism\">Autism<\/a>, <a href=\"imitation\">Imitation<\/a>, <a href=\"mind_reading\">Mind reading<\/a>, <a href=\"mind-blindness_theory\">Mind-blindness theory<\/a>, <a href=\"prefrontal_cortex_-pfc-\">Prefrontal cortex (PFC)<\/a>, <a href=\"theory_of_the_child-s_mind_-tom-\">Theory of the child&#8217;s mind (ToM)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the brain situated at the front, right in the center of the head, which is involved in high-level processes such as thinking about oneself and other people, and especially taking the perspective of others and determining their goals (i.e., &#8216;mind reading&#8217;. &nbsp;It becomes more activated while the person is solving theory of mind &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/medial_-pre-_frontal_cortex\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Medial (pre-) frontal cortex&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}