Cultural and linguistic effects on neural bases of 'Theory of Mind' in American and Japanese children.

Abstract:

:Theory of Mind (ToM) has been defined as our ability to predict behaviors of others in terms of their underlying intentions. While the developmental trajectory of ToM had been thought to be invariant across cultures, several ToM studies conducted outside the Anglo-American cultural or linguistic milieus have obtained mixed results. To examine effects of culture/language on the development of neural bases of ToM, we studied 12 American monolingual children and 12 Japanese bilingual children with second-order false-belief story and cartoon tasks, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). While a few brain regions such as ventro-medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and precuneus were recruited by both cultural/linguistic groups, several brain areas including inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) were employed in a culture/language-dependent manner during the ToM tasks. These results suggest that the neural correlates of ToM may begin to vary depending upon cultural/linguistic background from early in life.

journal_name

Brain Res

journal_title

Brain research

authors

Kobayashi C,Glover GH,Temple E

doi

10.1016/j.brainres.2007.06.022

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Has Abstract

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2007-08-20 00:00:00

pages

95-107

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0006-8993

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1872-6240

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S0006-8993(07)01341-8

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1164

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