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In this paper, we investigate the brain activity elicited during perceptionof animated shapes as stimuli, which have been found to evoke mental stateattributions. Contrary to a previous study, we incorporated the participants'responses in the analysis, and observed robust activations in mPFC, which hasbeen found to play an important role in understanding other's and one's ownnature. From our analyses, TPOj was observed showing robust activation duringthe task as well as functionally connected to AA and LTC, which lead tospeculation that empathy might co-occur with mentalizing in the task and thathumans might be able to empathize with these interacting shapes, in spite oflacking human features. Along with this, in one of our analyses, we were ableto localize a region close to the pSTS, where the activation depicted theparticipants' 'ability to mentalize'. Based on our observations, we modelledthe prediction of mentalization and propose our model as an approach towardsdeveloping a brain-activity based model to detect ToM (Theory of Mind)difficulties, which could be useful in research about disorders like AutismSpectrum Disorder (ASD) as well as assessment of mentalization-basedtreatments. Additionally, we use our findings to reiterate how the RestingState might not always act as a good control condition and that controlconditions should be task-specific.

Shapeception: Unravelling Brain Activity during Animated Shape Perception and Mentalization