The second person in "I"-"you"-"it" triadic interactions
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Laurent Cleret de Langavant1, Charlotte Jacquemot, Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Lévi
1Institut National de la Santé et la Recherche Médicale & Ecole Normale Supérieure, 75005 Paris, France. laurent.cleret@gmail.com
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Second person social cognition cannot be restricted to dyadic interactions between two persons (the "I" and the "you"). Many instances of social communication are triadic, and involve a third person (the "him/her/it"), which is the object of the interaction. We discuss neuropsychological and brain imaging data showing that triadic interactions involve dedicated brain networks distinct from those of dyadic interactions.
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