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ERIC Number: EJ848055
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
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Brain Regions for Perceiving and Reasoning about Other People in School-Aged Children
Saxe, Rebecca R.; Whitfield-Gabrieli, Susan; Scholz, Jonathan; Pelphrey, Kevin A.
Child Development, v80 n4 p1197-1209 Jul-Aug 2009
Neuroimaging studies with adults have identified cortical regions recruited when people think about other people's thoughts (theory of mind): temporo-parietal junction, posterior cingulate, and medial prefrontal cortex. These same regions were recruited in 13 children aged 6-11 years when they listened to sections of a story describing a character's thoughts compared to sections of the same story that described the physical context. A distinct region in the posterior superior temporal sulcus was implicated in the perception of biological motion. Change in response selectivity with age was observed in just one region. The right temporo-parietal junction was recruited equally for mental and physical facts about people in younger children, but only for mental facts in older children.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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