Electrophysiological correlates of reading the single- and interactive-mind
Understanding minds is the cognitive basis of successful social interaction. In everyday life, human mental activity often happens at the moment of social interaction among two or multiple persons instead of only one person. Understanding the interactive mind of two- or multi-person is more complex...
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| author | Yi-Wen eWang Yu-Wei eZheng Chong-De eLin Jie eWu De-Li eShen |
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| description | Understanding minds is the cognitive basis of successful social interaction. In everyday life, human mental activity often happens at the moment of social interaction among two or multiple persons instead of only one person. Understanding the interactive mind of two- or multi-person is more complex and higher than understanding the single-person mind in the hierarchical structure of theory-of-mind. Understanding the interactive mind maybe differentiate from understanding the single mind. In order to examine the dissociative electrophysiological correlates of reading the single mind and reading the interactive mind, the 64 channels event-related potentials (ERP) were recorded while 16 normal adults were observing three kinds of Chinese idioms depicted physical scenes, one-person with mental activity and two- or multi-person with mental interaction. After the equivalent N400, in the 500- to 700-ms epoch, the mean amplitudes of late positive component (LPC) over frontal for reading the single mind and reading the interactive mind were significantly more positive than for physical representation, while there was no difference between the former two. In the 700-to 800-ms epoch, the mean amplitudes of LPC over frontal-central for reading the interactive mind were more positive than for reading the single mind and physical representation, while there was no difference between the latter two. The present study provides electrophysiological signature of the dissociations between reading the single mind and reading the interactive mind. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-11bf0fe6cfac4bd4a5f2f16c62c221912022-12-22T00:16:36ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience1662-51612011-07-01510.3389/fnhum.2011.0006410896Electrophysiological correlates of reading the single- and interactive-mindYi-Wen eWang0Yu-Wei eZheng1Chong-De eLin2Jie eWu3De-Li eShen4Tianjin Normal UniversityTianjin Normal UniversityBeijing Normal UniversityTianjin Normal UniversityTianjin Normal UniversityUnderstanding minds is the cognitive basis of successful social interaction. In everyday life, human mental activity often happens at the moment of social interaction among two or multiple persons instead of only one person. Understanding the interactive mind of two- or multi-person is more complex and higher than understanding the single-person mind in the hierarchical structure of theory-of-mind. Understanding the interactive mind maybe differentiate from understanding the single mind. In order to examine the dissociative electrophysiological correlates of reading the single mind and reading the interactive mind, the 64 channels event-related potentials (ERP) were recorded while 16 normal adults were observing three kinds of Chinese idioms depicted physical scenes, one-person with mental activity and two- or multi-person with mental interaction. After the equivalent N400, in the 500- to 700-ms epoch, the mean amplitudes of late positive component (LPC) over frontal for reading the single mind and reading the interactive mind were significantly more positive than for physical representation, while there was no difference between the former two. In the 700-to 800-ms epoch, the mean amplitudes of LPC over frontal-central for reading the interactive mind were more positive than for reading the single mind and physical representation, while there was no difference between the latter two. The present study provides electrophysiological signature of the dissociations between reading the single mind and reading the interactive mind.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00064/fullMentalizingChinese idiomevent-related potential (ERP)late positive component (LPC)mind-readingtheory of mind (ToM) |
| spellingShingle | Yi-Wen eWang Yu-Wei eZheng Chong-De eLin Jie eWu De-Li eShen Electrophysiological correlates of reading the single- and interactive-mind Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Mentalizing Chinese idiom event-related potential (ERP) late positive component (LPC) mind-reading theory of mind (ToM) |
| title | Electrophysiological correlates of reading the single- and interactive-mind |
| title_full | Electrophysiological correlates of reading the single- and interactive-mind |
| title_fullStr | Electrophysiological correlates of reading the single- and interactive-mind |
| title_full_unstemmed | Electrophysiological correlates of reading the single- and interactive-mind |
| title_short | Electrophysiological correlates of reading the single- and interactive-mind |
| title_sort | electrophysiological correlates of reading the single and interactive mind |
| topic | Mentalizing Chinese idiom event-related potential (ERP) late positive component (LPC) mind-reading theory of mind (ToM) |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00064/full |
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