Neurodevelopmental correlates of theory of mind in preschool children

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1147-1162

  Sabbagh, Mark A ^a   Bowman, Lindsay C ^a   Evraire, Lyndsay E ^a   Ito, Jennie M B ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL LOBE;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 67650604177     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01322.x     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. Aichhorn, M., Perner, J., Kronbichler, M., Staffen, W. Ladurner, G. (2006). Do visual perspective tasks need theory of mind? NeuroImage, 30, 1059 1068.
2. Amodio, D. M. Frith, C. D. (2006). Meeting of minds: The medial frontal cortex and social cognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 7, 268 277.
3. Baron-Cohen, S. (2001). Theory of mind and autism: A review. In L. M. Glidden (Ed International review of research in mental retardation: Austism (pp. 169 184). San Diego : Academic Press.
4. Birch, S. A. J. Bloom, P. (2007). The curse of knowledge in reasoning about false beliefs. Psychological Science, 18, 382 386.
5. Brunet, E., Sarfati, Y., Hardy-Bayle, M. Decety, J. (2000). A PET investigation of the attribution of intentions with a nonverbal task. NeuroImage, 11, 157 166. (Pubitemid 30141452)
6. Callaghan, T. C., Rochat, P., Lillard, A., Claux, M. L., Odden, H., Itakura, S., et al. (2005). Syncrhony in the onset of mental-state reasoning. Psychological Science, 16, 378 384.
7. Carlson, S. M. (2005). Developmentally sensitive measures of executive function in preschool children. Developmental Neuropsychology, 28, 595 616. (Pubitemid 41368244)
8. Carlson, S. M., Davis, A. Leach, J. G. (2005). Less is more: Executive function and symbolic representation in preschool children. Psychological Science, 16, 609 616. (Pubitemid 41284641)
9. Carlson, S. M. Moses, L. J. (2001). Individual differences in inhibitory control and children's theory of mind. Child Development, 72, 1032 1053. (Pubitemid 33654544)
10. Casey, B. J., Giedd, J. N. Thomas, K. M. (2000). Structural and functional brain development and its relation to cognitive development. Biological Psychology, 54, 241 257. (Pubitemid 30764895)
11. Diamond, A. (2002). Normal development of prefrontal cortex from birth to young adulthood: Cognitive functions, anatomy, and biochemistry. In D. T. Stuss R. T. Knight (Eds Principles of frontal lobe function (pp. 466 503). New York : Oxford University Press.
12. Dunn, L. M. Dunn, L. M. (1997). Peabody picture vocabulary test (3rd ed.). Bloomington, MN : Pearson Assessments.
13. Flavell, J. H. (1999). Cognitive development: Children's knowledge about the mind. Annual Review of Psychology, 50, 21 45.
14. Flavell, J. H., Green, F. L. Flavell, E. R. (1986). Development of knowledge about the appearance-reality distinction. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 51 (Serial No. 212).
15. Fox, N. A., Rubin, K. H., Calkins, S. D. Marshall, T. R. (1995). Frontal activation asymmetry and social competence at four years of age. Child Development, 66, 1770 1784.
16. Gallagher, H. L. Frith, C. (2003). Functional imaging of 'theory of mind'. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 77 83. (Pubitemid 36173637)
17. Gopnik, A. Astington, J. W. (1988). Children's understanding of representational change and its relation to the understanding of false belief and the appearance-reality distinction. Child Development, 59, 26 37.
18. Hala, S., Hug, S. Henderson, A. (2003). Executive function and false belief understanding in preschool children: Two tasks are harder than one. Journal of Cognition and Development, 4, 275 298. (Pubitemid 44783550)
19. Hughes, C. (1998). Executive function in preschoolers: Links with theory of mind and verbal ability. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 16, 233 253. (Pubitemid 128433616)
20. Kain, W. Perner, J. (2005). What fMRI can tell us about the ToM-EF connection: False beliefs, working memory, and inhibition. In W. Schneider, R. Schumann-Hengsteler B. Sodian (Eds Young children's cognitive development: Interrelationships among executive functioning, working memory, verbal ability and theory of mind (pp. 189 217). Mahwah, NJ : Psychology Press.
21. Karmiloff-Smith, A. (1997). Crucial differences between developmental cognitive neuroscience and adult neuropsychology. Developmental Neuropsychology, 13, 513 524. (Pubitemid 127509973)
22. Keysar, B., Lin, S. Barr, D. J. (2003). Limits on theory of mind use in adults. Cognition, 89, 25 41. (Pubitemid 36945204)
23. Kobayashi, C., Glover, G. H. Temple, E. (2007). Children's and adults' neural bases of verbal and nonverbal 'theory of mind'. Neuropsychologia, 45, 1522 1532. (Pubitemid 46097011)
24. Kosslyn, S. M., Pascual-Leone, A., Felician, O., Camposano, S., Keenan, J. P., Thompson, W. L., et al. (1999). The role of area 17 in viual imagery: Convergent evidence from PET and rTMS. Science, 284, 167 170. (Pubitemid 29282074)
25. Leslie, A. M., Friedman, O. German, T. P. (2004). Core mechanisms in 'theory of mind'. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 528 533. (Pubitemid 39536249)
26. Lewis, C., Freeman, N. H., Kyriakidou, C., Maridaki-Kassotaki, K. Berridge, D. M. (1996). Social influences on false belief access: Specific sibling influences or general apprenticeship? Child Development, 67, 2930 2946.
27. Lillard, A. (1993). Young children's conceptualization of pretense: Action or mental representational state? Child Development, 64, 372 386.
28. Liu, D., Wellman, H. M., Tardif, T. Sabbagh, M. A. (2008). Theory of mind development in Chinese children: A meta-analysis of false-belief understanding across cultures and languages. Developmental Psychology, 44, 523 531.
29. Marshall, P. J., Bar-Haim, Y. Fox, N. A. (2002). Development of the EEG from 5 months to 4 years of age. Clinical Neurophysiology, 113, 1199 1208. (Pubitemid 34874510)
30. Mitchell, J. P. (2008). Activity in right temporo-parietal junction is not selective for theory-of-mind. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 262 271. (Pubitemid 351197784)
31. Mitchell, R. W. Neal, M. (2005). Children's understanding of their own and others' mental states. Part A: Self-understanding precedes understanding of others in pretense. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 23, 175 200. (Pubitemid 40900629)
32. Moses, L. J. (2001). Executive accounts of theory of mind development. Child Development, 72, 688 690. (Pubitemid 33597394)
33. Nunez, P. L. (1995). Neocortical dynamics and human EEG rhythms. New York : Oxford University Press.
34. Oh, S. Lewis, C. (2008). Korean preschoolers' advanced inhibitory control and its relation to other executive skills and mental state understanding. Child Development, 79, 80 99.
35. Onishi, K. Baillargeon, R. (2005). Do 15-month-old infants understand false beliefs? Science, 308, 255 258. (Pubitemid 40558861)
36. Pascual-Marqui, R. D. (2002). Standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA): Technical details. Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, 24D, 5 12. (Pubitemid 35462350)
37. Pascual-Marqui, R. D., Esslen, M., Kochi, K. Lehmann, D. (2002). Functional imaging with low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (LORETA): A review. Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, 24, 91 95. (Pubitemid 35447387)
38. Pears, K. C. Moses, L. J. (2003). Demographics, parenting and theory of mind in preschool children. Social Development, 12, 1 20. (Pubitemid 37155726)
39. Perner, J. (1991). Understanding the representational mind. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press.
40. Perner, J., Lang, B. Kloo, D. (2002). Theory of mind and self-control: More than a common problem of inhibition. Child Development, 73, 752 767. (Pubitemid 41692436)
41. Peterson, C. C., Peterson, J. L. Webb, J. (2000). Factors influencing the development of a theory of mind in blind children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 18, 431 447.
42. Peterson, C. C., Wellman, H. M. Liu, D. (2005). Steps in theory of mind development for children with deafness or autism. Child Development, 76, 523 541.
43. Pizzagalli, D. A., Peccoralo, L. A., Davidson, R. J. Cohen, J. D. (2006). Resting anterior cingulate activity and abnormal responses to errors in subjects with elevated depressive symptoms: A 128-channel EEG study. Human Brain Mapping, 27, 185 201.
44. Pizzagalli, D. A., Sherwood, R. J., Henriques, J. B. Davidson, R. J. (2005). Frontal brain asymmetry and reward responsiveness. Psychological Science, 16, 805 813.
45. Rall, J. Harris, P. L. (2000). In Cinderella's slippers? Story comprehension from the protagonist's point of view. Developmental Psychology, 36, 202 208.
46. Reed, M., Pien, D. L. Rothbart, M. K. (1984). Inhibitory self-control in preschool children. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 30, 131 147.
47. Ridderinkhof, K. R., Ullsperger, M., Crone, E. A. Nieuwenhuis, S. (2004). The role of the medial frontal cortex in cognitive control. Science, 306, 443 447. (Pubitemid 39372436)
48. Ruby, P. Decety, J. (2001). Effect of subjective perspective taking during simulation of action: A PET investigation of agency. Nature Neuroscience, 4, 546 550. (Pubitemid 32397194)
49. Ruffman, T., Slade, L. Crowe, E. (2002). The relation between children's and mothers' mental state language and theory-of-mind understanding. Child Development, 73, 734 751. (Pubitemid 41692435)
50. Sabbagh, M. A., Bowman, L. C., Evraire, L. E. Ito, J. M. B. (2009). Neurodevelopmental correlates of response-conflict executive functioning in preschool-aged children. Manuscript in preparation.
51. Sabbagh, M. A., Moses, L. J. Shiverick, S. M. (2006). Executive functioning and preschoolers' understanding of false beliefs, false photographs and false signs. Child Development, 77, 1034 1049. (Pubitemid 44117910)
52. Saxe, R. (2006). Uniquely human social cognition. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 16, 235 239.
53. Saxe, R. Powell, L. J. (2006). It's the thought that counts: Specific brain regions for one component of theory of mind. Psychological Science, 17, 692 699. (Pubitemid 44179880)
54. Saxe, R., Schulz, L. Jiang, Y. (2006). Reading minds versus following rules. Social Neuroscience, 1, 284 298.
55. Simms, D. L. Neely, J. G. (1989). Thickness of the lateral surface of the temporal bone in children. Annals of Otology, Rhinology, & Laryngology, 98, 726 731. (Pubitemid 19236880)
56. Surian, L., Caldi, S. Sperber, D. (2008). Attribution of beliefs by 13-month-old infants. Psychological Science, 18, 580 586.
57. Thatcher, R. W. (1992). Cyclic cortical reorganization in early childhood. Brain and Cognition, 20, 24 50.
58. Thatcher, R. W. (1994). Cyclic cortical reorganization: Origins of human cognitive development. In G. Dawson K. W. Fischer (Eds Human behavior and the developing brain (pp. 232 266). New York : Guilford.
59. Thatcher, R. W., Walker, R. A. Guidice, S. (1987). Human cerebral hemispheres develop at different rates and age. Science, 236, 1110 1113. (Pubitemid 17113256)
60. Vogeley, K., Bussfeld, P., Newen, A., Herrmann, S., Happe, F., Falkai, P., et al. (2001). Mind reading: Neural mechansims of theory of mind and self-perspective. NeuroImage, 14, 170 181. (Pubitemid 32552753)
61. Vollm, B. A., Taylor, A. N. W., Richardson, P. C., Corcoran, R., Stirling, J., McKie, S., et al. (2006). Neural correlates of theory of mind and empathy: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study in a nonverbal task. NeuroImage, 29, 90 98. (Pubitemid 41828033)
62. Wellman, H. M. (1990). The child's theory of mind. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press.
63. Wellman, H. M., Cross, D. Watson, J. (2001). Meta-analysis of theory of mind development: The truth about false-belief. Child Development, 72, 655 684. (Pubitemid 33597392)
64. Wellman, H. M. Liu, D. (2004). Scaling of theory of mind tasks. Child Development, 75, 523 541.
65. Wellman, H. M., Lopez-Duran, S., LaBounty, J. Hamilton, B. (2007). Infant attention to intentional action predicts preschool theory of mind. Developmental Psychology.
66. Wellman, H. M., Phillips, A. T., Dunphy-Lelil, S. LaLonde, N. (2004). Infant social attention predicts preschool social cognition. Developmental Science, 7, 283 288. (Pubitemid 38750664)
67. Wimmer, H. Perner, J. (1983). Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constrainng function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception. Cognition, 13, 103 128.
68. Woodward, A. L. (2003). Infants' developing understanding of the link between looker and object. Developmental Science, 6, 297 311. (Pubitemid 36737465)
69. Woolfe, T., Want, S. C. Siegal, M. (2002). Signposts to development: Theory of mind in deaf children. Child Development, 73, 768 778. (Pubitemid 41692437)
70. Zelazo, P. D. (2006). The dimensional change card sort (DCCS): A method of assessing executive function in children. Nature Protocols, 1, 297 301.