Mark Thornton

Assistant Professor

Dartmouth College

United States

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Mark Thornton is an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College in the United States. His research focuses on deep neural network models, emotion understanding, and the conceptual structure of human relationships across various cultures. He also investigates the intersection of social neuroscience and artificial intelligence, exploring how neural representations shape mental state concepts and action understanding.

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Chujun Lin

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University of California, San Diego

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University of Oklahoma

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California Institute of Technology

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The conceptual structure of human relationships across modern and historical cultures

Deep neural network models of emotion understanding

Deep social neuroscience: the promise and peril of using artificial neural networks to study the social brain

Neural representations of situations and mental states are composed of sums of representations of the actions they afford

How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences

The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds

Transition dynamics shape mental state concepts.

Accurate emotion prediction in dyads and groups and its potential social benefits.

Six dimensions describe action understanding: The ACT-FASTaxonomy.

Perceiving actions before they happen: psychological dimensions scaffold neural action prediction

People accurately predict the transition probabilities between actions

People represent mental states in terms of rationality, social impact, and valence: Validating the 3d Mind Model

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Chujun Lin

Huajian Cai

Ralph Adolphs

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