title: Belief and sign, true and false: the unique of false belief reasoning.
abstract: For a long time, a controversy has been proposed that whether the process of theory of mind is a result of domain-specific or domain-general changes (Wellman in The handbook of childhood cognitive development. Blackwell Publication, New Jersey, 2011). This event-related potential study explored the neural time course of domain-general and domain-specific components in belief reasoning. Fourteen participants completed location transfer false belief (FB), true belief (TB), false sign (FS) and true sign (TS) tasks, in which two pictures told a story related to a dog that ran from a green into a red box. In the TB and FB tasks, a boy saw or did not see the transfer of the dog, respectively. In the FS and TS tasks, an arrow that pointed to the green box either altered its direction to the red box or did not alter following the transfer of the dog. Participants then inferred where the boy thought of, or the arrow indicated the location of the dog. FB and TB reasoning elicited lower N2 amplitudes than FS and TS reasoning, which is associated with domain-general components, the detection, and classification. The late slow wave (LSW) for FB was more positive at frontal, central, and parietal sites than FS because of the domain-specific component involved in FB reasoning. However, the LSW was less positive for TB than for FB but did not differ from the TS condition, which implies that mental representation might not be involved in TB reasoning.
authors: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China, scarletl312@gmail.com.
authors: Ting
authors: T
authors: Zhang
authors: Qin
authors: Q
authors: Zhang
authors: Yiyuan
authors: Y
authors: Li
authors: Changquan
authors: C
authors: Long
authors: Hong
authors: H
authors: Li
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003469:Culture; D004285:Dogs; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D056345:Theory of Mind / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
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