The Spatio-temporal Mechanism of ‘Theory of Mind’ in Very Preterm Born and Term Born School Age Children
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Abstract
Very preterm birth (<32 weeks gestation age) has been implicated in social and cognitive deficits throughout development.In this study, we use magnetoencephalography for its excellent spatial and temporal resolution to assess the neural processing of Theory of Mind -the ability to understand the mental states of others to predict their behaviour -in very preterm (VPT) and fullterm (FT) born school age children (7-13 years).Our findings suggest that VPT children employ temporal regions from 100 ms-500 ms such as the inferior temporal gyrus, the right temporal pole and the middle temporal gyrus without recruiting core ToM regions such as the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) or key frontal structures.FT children recruited the TPJ as early as 200 ms in addition to frontal, temporal and parietal regions.We suggest that VPT children use a different strategy that relies on the inferior and temporal gyri in inferring mental states.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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