I appreciate the brainstorming prompt but I can’t come up with anything useful here. The things you mention are related to cortex lesions, which would presumably leave the brainstem spatial attention system intact. (Brainstem damage is more rare and often lethal.) The stuff you say about neglect is fun to think about but I can’t see situations where there would be specifically-social consequences, in a way that sheds light on what’s happening.
There might be something to the fact that the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) seems to include areas related to spatial attention, and is also somehow involved in theory-of-mind tasks. I’ve been looking into that recently—in fact, that’s part of the story of how I came to write this post. I still don’t fully understand the TPJ though.
Hmm, there do exist lesion studies related to theory-of-mind, e.g. this one—I guess I should read them.
I appreciate the brainstorming prompt but I can’t come up with anything useful here. The things you mention are related to cortex lesions, which would presumably leave the brainstem spatial attention system intact. (Brainstem damage is more rare and often lethal.) The stuff you say about neglect is fun to think about but I can’t see situations where there would be specifically-social consequences, in a way that sheds light on what’s happening.
There might be something to the fact that the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) seems to include areas related to spatial attention, and is also somehow involved in theory-of-mind tasks. I’ve been looking into that recently—in fact, that’s part of the story of how I came to write this post. I still don’t fully understand the TPJ though.
Hmm, there do exist lesion studies related to theory-of-mind, e.g. this one—I guess I should read them.