Person perception precedes theory of mind: An event related potential analysis

Neuroscience

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 238-246

  Wang, Y W ^a,b   Lin, C D ^c   Yuan, B ^a   Huang, L ^a   Zhang, W X ^b   Shen, D L ^a  

^a TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ERP; LPC; Mind reading; P200; Person perception; Theory of mind (ToM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ART; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PILOT PROJECTS; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THEORY OF MIND; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955923981     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.06.055     Document Type: Article

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