Children’s Belief- and Desire-reasoning in the Temporopartietal Junction: Evidence for Specialization from Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

Behaviorally, children’s explicit theory-of-mind (ToM) proceeds in a progression of mental-state understandings: developmentally, children demonstrate accurate explicit desire-reasoning before accurate explicit belief-reasoning. Given its robust and cross-cultural nature, we hypothesize this progres...

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Main Authors: Lindsay Caroline Bowman, Ioulia eKovelman, Xiaosu eHu, Henry M. Wellman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00560/full