P300 as a correlate of false beliefs and false statements.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This study investigates P300 as a component for false belief and false statement processing with and without a communicative context. The purpose is to understand why P300 has been shown to be commonly involved in false belief and lie processing.

Methods

Participants were presented with a story in which the protagonist holds a true belief and makes a true statement of it (true belief), holds a false belief and makes a true statement (false belief), or holds a true belief and makes a false statement (false statement) while electroencephalograms were recorded.

Results

In Experiment 1, featuring a solitary protagonist, stronger posterior P300 was shown in the false belief condition than the true belief and false statement condition. With the installation of

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10275538 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature