Cultural and linguistic influence on neural bases of ‘Theory of Mind’: An fMRI study with Japanese bilinguals  

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Kobayashi, Chiyoko ; Glover, Gary H. ; Temple, Elise

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 98 no. 2 (2006), page 210-220.
Topik: Theory of mind; Cognition; Japanese; Culture; Language; Bilingualism; fMRI
Fulltext: 98_02_Kobayashi.pdf (1.01MB)

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Theory of mind (ToM)—our ability to predict behaviors of others in terms of their underlying intentions—has been thought to be universal and invariant across diVerent cultures. However, several ToM studies conducted outside the Anglo-American cultural or linguistic boundaries have obtained mixed results. To examine the inXuence of culture/language on neural bases of ToM, we studied 16 American English-speaking monolinguals and 16 Japanese-English bilinguals with second-order false-belief story tasks, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Several neural correlates of ToM including medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) were recruited by both cultural/linguistic groups. However, some other brain areas including inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) were employed in a culture/language-speciWc manner, during the ToM tasks. These results suggest that the ways in which adults understand ToM are not entirely universal.

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