The right temporoparietal junction plays a role in the way individuals observe and process information, thus impacting social interaction, where empathy (the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position) and sympathy require an individual to simultaneously distinguish between different possible perspectives on the same situation.
The right temporoparietal junction plays a role in the way individuals observe and process information, thus impacting social interaction, where empathy (the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position) and sympathy require an individual to simultaneously distinguish between different possible perspectives on the same situation.