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

Brain Research

Volumn 1164, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-107

  Kobayashi, Chiyoko ^a   Glover, Gary H ^b   Temple, Elise ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Cognitive development; Culture; fMRI; Japanese; Language development; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NERVE CELL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBICULUM;

AGING; AMERICAS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34547590251     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.06.022     Document Type: Article

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