Empathy predicts false belief reasoning ability: evidence from the N400
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Empathy predicts false belief reasoning ability: evidence from the N400.
Interpreting others' actions relies on an understanding of their current mental state. Emerging research has begun to identify a number of factors that give rise to individual differences in this ability. We report an event-related brain potential study where participants (N = 28) read contexts that described a character having a true belief (TB) or false belief (FB) about an object's location....
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1749-5024,1749-5016
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu131