Effects of age on behavioural and eye gaze on Theory of Mind using movie for social cognition.

ABSTRACT: Evidence has shown that older adults have lower accuracy in Theory of Mind (ToM) tasks compared with young adults, but we are still unclear whether the difficulty in decoding mental states in older adults stems from not looking at the critical areas, and more so from the ageing Asian population. Most ToM studies use static images or short vignettes to measure ToM but these stimuli are dissimilar to everyday social interactions. We investigated this question using a dynamic task that measured both accuracy and error types, and examined the links between accuracy and error types to eye gaze fixation at critical areas (e.g., eyes, mouth, body). A total of 82 participants (38 older, 44 young adults) completed the Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition (MASC) task on the eye tracker. Resu

SUBMITTER: Yong MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11607846 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature