Neural correlates of children's theory of mind development.
Neural correlates of children's theory of mind development.
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01262.x
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发表时间：
2009-03
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Wellman HM
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作者：
Liu D;Sabbagh MA;Gehring WJ;Wellman HM
幼儿在错误信念任务上的表现标志着他们对心理状态理解的显著变化。在这里，我们提供的证据表明，前额叶皮层的活动与这种能力的发展有关。事件相关脑电位（ERP）被记录为成人和4-，5-，和6岁的儿童推理的现实和信念的人物在动画小插曲。在成年人中，晚慢波（LSW），与左额叶头皮分布，与信念的推理。这种LSW也被观察到的儿童谁可以正确的原因对字符的信念，但没有在儿童谁没有错误的信念问题。这些发现有几个含义，包括支持前额叶皮层对心理理论发展的关键作用。
Young children show significant changes in their mental-state understanding as marked by their performance on false-belief tasks. Here we provide evidence for activity in the prefrontal cortex associated with the development of this ability. Event-related brain potentials (ERP) were recorded as adults and 4-, 5-, and 6-year-old children reasoned about reality and the beliefs of characters in animated vignettes. In adults, a late slow wave (LSW), with a left-frontal scalp distribution, was associated with reasoning about beliefs. This LSW was also observed for children who could correctly reason about the characters’ beliefs but not in children who failed false-belief questions. These findings have several implications including support for the critical role of the prefrontal cortex for theory of mind development.