Early and late neural correlates of mentalizing: ALE meta-analyses in adults, children and adolescents.

ABSTRACT: The ability to understand mental states of others is referred to as mentalizing and enabled by our Theory of Mind. This social skill relies on brain regions comprising the mentalizing network as robustly observed in adults but also in a growing number of developmental studies. We summarized and compared neuroimaging evidence in children/adolescents and adults during mentalizing using coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses to inform about brain regions consistently or differentially engaged across age categories. Adults (N = 5286) recruited medial prefrontal and middle/inferior frontal cortices, precuneus, temporoparietal junction and middle temporal gyri during mentalizing, which were functionally connected to bilateral inferior/superior parietal lobule and thalamu

SUBMITTER: Fehlbaum LV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8972312 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature