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SUBMITTER: Mukerji CE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6688452 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mukerji Cora E CE Lincoln Sarah Hope SH Dodell-Feder David D Nelson Charles A CA Hooker Christine I CI
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20190801 6
Theory of mind (ToM), the capacity to reason about others' mental states, is central to healthy social development. Neural mechanisms supporting ToM may contribute to individual differences in children's social cognitive behavior. Employing a false belief functional magnetic resonance imaging paradigm, we identified patterns of neural activity and connectivity elicited by ToM reasoning in school-age children (N = 32, ages 9-13). Next, we tested relations between these neural ToM correlates and c ...[more]