PMID- 22849953
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130426
LR  - 20220309
IS  - 1467-8624 (Electronic)
IS  - 0009-3920 (Linking)
VI  - 83
IP  - 6
DP  - 2012 Nov
TI  - Theory of mind performance in children correlates with functional specialization 
      of a brain region for thinking about thoughts.
PG  - 1853-68
LID - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01829.x [doi]
AB  - Thinking about other people's thoughts recruits a specific group of brain 
      regions, including the temporo-parietal junctions (TPJ), precuneus (PC), and 
      medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC). The same brain regions were recruited when 
      children (N=20, 5-11 years) and adults (N=8) listened to descriptions of 
      characters' mental states, compared to descriptions of physical events. Between 
      ages 5 and 11 years, responses in the bilateral TPJ became increasingly specific 
      to stories describing mental states as opposed to people's appearance and social 
      relationships. Functional activity in the right TPJ was related to children's 
      performance on a high level theory of mind task. These findings provide insights 
      into the origin of neural mechanisms of theory of mind, and how behavioral and 
      neural changes can be related in development.
CI  - (c) 2012 The Authors. Child Development (c) 2012 Society for Research in Child 
      Development, Inc.
FAU - Gweon, Hyowon
AU  - Gweon H
AD  - Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
      Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, 
      USA. hyora@mit.edu
FAU - Dodell-Feder, David
AU  - Dodell-Feder D
FAU - Bedny, Marina
AU  - Bedny M
FAU - Saxe, Rebecca
AU  - Saxe R
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
DEP - 20120731
PL  - United States
TA  - Child Dev
JT  - Child development
JID - 0372725
SB  - IM
MH  - Acoustic Stimulation
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Brain/*physiology
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Female
MH  - Functional Laterality/physiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MH  - Male
MH  - Neuropsychological Tests
MH  - Theory of Mind/*physiology
MH  - Thinking/*physiology
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2012/08/02 06:00
MHDA- 2013/04/27 06:00
CRDT- 2012/08/02 06:00
PHST- 2012/08/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/08/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/04/27 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01829.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Child Dev. 2012 Nov;83(6):1853-68. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01829.x. Epub 
      2012 Jul 31.