A reaction time advantage for calculating beliefs over public representations signals domain specificity for 'theory of mind'
A reaction time advantage for calculating beliefs over public representations signals domain specificity for 'theory of mind'
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10.1016/j.cognition.2010.03.001
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发表时间：
2010-06-01
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3.4
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German, Tamsin C.
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作者：
Cohen, Adam S.;German, Tamsin C.
在一项任务中，参与者的公开任务是在一系列事件中跟踪物体的位置，获得对不可预测的探测的反应时间，需要推断社会代理对该物体位置的信念。对错误信念情况的反应时间比对显示物体位置的地图（错误）内容（实验 1）和指示物体位置的箭头（错误）方向（实验 2）的反应要快。这些结果与发育、神经影像和神经心理学证据一致，表明人类认知中存在对心理状态进行编码和推理的特定领域机制。这些机制的专业化可能来自核心认知架构，也可能来自社会领域专业知识的积累。 (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. 保留所有权利。
In a task where participants' overt task was to track the location of an object across a sequence of events, reaction times to unpredictable probes requiring an inference about a social agent's beliefs about the location of that object were obtained. Reaction times to false belief situations were faster than responses about the (false) contents of a map showing the location of the object (Experiment 1) and about the (false) direction of an arrow signaling the location of the object (Experiment 2). These results are consistent with developmental, neuro-imaging and neuropsychological evidence that there exist domain specific mechanisms within human cognition for encoding and reasoning about mental states. Specialization of these mechanisms may arise from either core cognitive architecture or via the accumulation of expertise in the social domain. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.