Mark A. Thornton

ScholarGPS® ID: 91298680854961

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Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States

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Social Sciences

Discipline

Psychology

Top Specialties

Mental State | Cognitive Neuroscience | Discrimination

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The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds (journal article) Wheatley, Thalia \| Thornton, Mark A. \| Stolk, Arjen \| Chang, Luke J. Perspectives on Psychological Science, volume 19, issue 2, pages 355-373 (2024). 10.1177/17456916231200177 Cited by (5) \| Cite \| Source
Deep social neuroscience: the promise and peril of using artificial neural networks to study the social brain (journal article) Sievers, Beau \| Thornton, Mark A Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, volume 19, issue 1 (2024). 10.1093/scan/nsae014 Cite \| Source
Neural representations of situations and mental states are composed of sums of representations of the actions they afford (journal article) Thornton, Mark A. \| Tamir, Diana I. Nature Communications, volume 15, issue 1 (2024). 10.1038/s41467-024-44870-7 Cited by (2) \| Cite \| Source
Predicting other people shapes the social mind (book chapter) In Advances in Experimental Social Psychology Tamir, Diana I. \| Thornton, Mark A. Elsevier (2024) 10.1016/bs.aesp.2023.11.003 Cite \| Source
Transition dynamics shape mental state concepts. (journal article) Thornton, Mark A. \| Rmus, Milena \| Vyas, Amisha D. \| Tamir, Diana I. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, volume 152, issue 10, pages 2804-2829 (2023). 10.1037/xge0001405 Cited by (4) \| Cite \| Source
Advancing Naturalistic Affective Science with Deep Learning (journal article) Lin, Chujun \| Bulls, Landry S. \| Tepfer, Lindsey J. \| Vyas, Amisha D. \| Thornton, Mark A. Affective Science, volume 4, issue 3, pages 550-562 (2023). 10.1007/s42761-023-00215-z Cited by (6) \| Cite \| Source
Six dimensions describe action understanding: The ACT-FASTaxonomy. (journal article) Thornton, Mark A. \| Tamir, Diana I. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, volume 122, issue 4, pages 577-605 (2022). 10.1037/pspa0000286 Cited by (12) \| Cite \| Source
The 3d Mind Model Characterizes How People Understand Mental States Across Modern and Historical Cultures (journal article) Thornton, Mark A. \| Wolf, Sarah \| Reilly, Brian J. \| Slingerland, Edward G. \| Tamir, Diana I. Affective Science, volume 3, issue 1, pages 93-104 (2022). 10.1007/s42761-021-00089-z Cited by (7) \| Cite \| Source
Mask exposure during COVID-19 changes emotional face processing (journal article) Barrick, Elyssa M. \| Thornton, Mark A. \| Tamir, Diana I. PLOS ONE, volume 16, issue 10, pages e0258470- (2021). 10.1371/journal.pone.0258470 Cited by (24) \| Cite \| Source
The representational structure of mental states generalizes across target people and stimulus modalities (journal article) Weaverdyck, Miriam E. \| Thornton, Mark A. \| Tamir, Diana I. NeuroImage, volume 238 (2021). 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118258 Cited by (5) \| Cite \| Source
Perceiving actions before they happen: psychological dimensions scaffold neural action prediction (journal article) Thornton, Mark A \| Tamir, Diana I Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, volume 16, issue 8, pages 807-815 (2021). 10.1093/scan/nsaa126 Cited by (6) \| Cite \| Source
People accurately predict the transition probabilities between actions (journal article) Thornton, Mark A. \| Tamir, Diana I. Science Advances, volume 7, issue 9 (2021). 10.1126/sciadv.abd4995 Cited by (13) \| Cite \| Source
The Organization of Social Knowledge Is Tuned for Prediction (book chapter) In The Neural Basis of Mentalizing Thornton, Mark A. \| Tamir, Diana I. Springer International Publishing (2021) 10.1007/978-3-030-51890-5_14 Cited by (3) \| Cite \| Source
People represent mental states in terms of rationality, social impact, and valence: Validating the 3d Mind Model (journal article) Thornton, Mark A. \| Tamir, Diana I. Cortex, volume 125 (2020). 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.12.012 Cited by (19) \| Cite \| Source
The brain represents people as the mental states they habitually experience (journal article) Thornton, Mark A. \| Weaverdyck, Miriam E. \| Tamir, Diana I. Nature Communications, volume 10, issue 1 (2019). 10.1038/s41467-019-10309-7 Cited by (22) \| Cite \| Source
People represent their own mental states more distinctly than those of others (journal article) Thornton, Mark A. \| Weaverdyck, Miriam E. \| Mildner, Judith N. \| Tamir, Diana I. Nature Communications, volume 10, issue 1 (2019). 10.1038/s41467-019-10083-6 Cited by (27) \| Cite \| Source
The Social Brain Automatically Predicts Others' Future Mental States (journal article) Thornton, Mark A. \| Weaverdyck, Miriam E. \| Tamir, Diana I. The Journal of Neuroscience, volume 39, issue 1, pages 140-148 (2019). 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1431-18.2018 Cited by (44) \| Cite \| Source
Theories of Person Perception Predict Patterns of Neural Activity During Mentalizing (journal article) Thornton, Mark A \| Mitchell, Jason P Cerebral Cortex, volume 28, issue 10, pages 3505-3520 (2018). 10.1093/cercor/bhx216 Cited by (50) \| Cite \| Source
Modeling the Predictive Social Mind (journal article) Tamir, Diana I. \| Thornton, Mark A. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, volume 22, issue 3, pages 201-212 (2018). 10.1016/j.tics.2017.12.005 Cited by (152) \| Cite \| Source
Consistent Neural Activity Patterns Represent Personally Familiar People (journal article) Thornton, Mark A. \| Mitchell, Jason P. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, volume 29, issue 9, pages 1583-1594 (2017). 10.1162/jocn_a_01151 Cited by (24) \| Cite \| Source