Distinct neural correlates underlying pretense and false belief reasoning: Evidence from ERPs

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 623-631

  Meinhardt, Jörg ^a   Kühn Popp, Nina ^a   Sommer, Monika ^b   Sodian, Beate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; False belief; Metacognition; Pretense; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ART; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BELIEF; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY OF MIND; THINKING;

ADULT; BRAIN; CONCEPT FORMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; THEORY OF MIND; THINKING;

EID: 84865528726     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.07.019     Document Type: Article

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