In a substudy of the project Social Cognitive Deficits in Eldery Patients the ToM performance of probands 60 years and older was tested by using the Reading-Mind-in-Eyes-Test (RMET). When correlating the results to various aspects of health-related quality of lif...
Aging is accompanied by changes in cognitive abilities and a great interest is spreading among researchers about aging impact on social cognition skills, such as the Theory of Mind (ToM). Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been used
Theory of Mind (ToM) and mentalization have been identified by previous research as two key abilities in child psychological development. Theory of Mind is defined as the child’s ability to attribute mental states to self and others and to understand the goals and intentions subserving people’s...
Theory of mind (ToM) The exact same model described above was used to test the effect of the type of film on the two ToM measures, the Moral Judgment Score and the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test. In both instances, performance was higher in the art film, compared to the Hollywood...
Theory of mind Language Longitudinal study Listening comprehension Reading comprehension Preschool age Early adolescence Introduction Between 3 and 5 years of age, children gain increasingly greater knowledge of mental states and processes; that is, they have notable advancement in their theory of mind (...
PHLMS Awareness scale is more balanced, including an increased number of items referring to emotional experiences (e.g., “When talking with other people, I am aware of the emotions I am experiencing”) or mental life (e.g., “I am aware of what thoughts are passing through my mind”)...
‘Theory-of-Mind’? After opting for the idea that expectations are empty profiles that recognize a particular content when it arrives, I apply the same description to ‘vicarious expectations’—very probably present in apes. Thus, (empty) vicarious expectations and one’s (full) contents are ...
Here we tested three consecutive three-month training modules aimed at cultivating either attention, socio-affective qualities (such as compassion), or socio-cognitive skills (such as theory of mind), in three training cohorts and a retest control cohort (N = 332). While attentional ...
Cognitive and Conceptual Space:At the simplest level, this area can be called the Mind’s eye or The Mind. Most people can introspect and deliberate mental activities. A subset of what one can do with the mind is utilizing cognitive and conceptual spaces. Have you ever picked up clay or ...
The scientific field of second language acquisition (SLA), as it emerged in the 1970s, is concerned with the conditions and circumstances in which second and foreign language learning occurs. Although sometimes used synonymously, the terms second languag