False belief reasoning in the brain: An ERP study |
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Authors: | Wang YiWen Liu Yan Gao YanXia Chen Jing Zhang Wenxin Lin ChongDe |
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Institution: | 1. Research Center of Learning Science, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China;School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China;The State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 1008 2. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China 3. The State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China |
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Abstract: | Understanding others mind and interpersonal interaction are the cognitive basis of successful social interactions. People's mental states and behaviors rely on their holding beliefs for self and others. To investigate the neural substrates of false belief reasoning, the 32 channels event-related potentials (ERP) of 14 normal adults were measured while they understood false-belief and true belief used deceptive appearance task. After onset of the false-belief or true-belief questions, N100, P200 and late negative component (LNC) were elicited at centro-frontal sites. Compared with true belief, false belief reasoning elicited significant declined LNC in the time window from 400 to 800 ms. The source analysis of difference wave (False minus True) showed a dipole located in the middle cingulated cortex. These findings show that false belief reasoning probably included inhibitive process. |
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Keywords: | theory-of-mind false belief event-related potentials late negative component (LNC) inhibition |
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