Claim: 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.
Evidence: Furthermore, the rTPJ plays a role in the way individuals observe and process information, thus impacting social interaction. The right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) is involved in the processing of information in terms of the ability of an individual to pay attention. Empathy and sympathy require an individual to simultaneously distinguish between different possible perspectives on the same situation. Empathy is 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.