Child and Animal Learning Development

The paper shows that adolescents' gossip decisions become more linked to perceived social value with age, particularly in interest valuation and sharing with close friends.

The paper shows that neural error-monitoring in 12-month-old infants predicts later self-recognition, suggesting early metacognition contributes to self-awareness development.

This study links theory of mind (ToM) abilities to conversational success in early right hemisphere stroke recovery, showing ToM predicts conversational performance independently of cognitive and demographic factors.

This study shows that toddlers and adults look more at faces and show more exploratory gaze patterns when watching pretend actions compared to real actions.

This study identifies distinct cerebellar regions associated with explicit ToM and nonverbal action prediction in young children.

This study shows that egocentric belief attribution supports adaptive decision-making in complex social interactions by enabling strategic alternation in group decision-making tasks.

This study uses anticipatory eye movements to investigate dynamic predictions of material behavior and finds that intuitive expectations influence these predictions even when they conflict with learned information.

This paper challenges the interpretation of animal behavior as inferential reasoning, arguing that correct choices in experimental tasks can result from stimulus-response associations rather than logical reasoning.

BELIEFS is a probabilistic ToM model that infers latent strategies and beliefs from behavior, outperforming WSLS-based models in predicting opponent choices across games.

This study investigates whether cognitive empathy emerges before affective empathy in toddlers using fNIRS and heart rate monitoring, finding stronger cognitive empathy activation in younger children.

This paper develops a novel paradigm to study infant decision-making and applies computational models to identify subtypes with distinct cognitive profiles.

The paper examines how age and parental caregiving influence social brain development and Theory of Mind in children through naturalistic fMRI studies of mother-child dyads.

The paper shows that when others see objects, participants' own neural object processing persists, indicating shared perceptual representation in infants and adults.

The paper identifies distinct neural networks for non-verbal action prediction and verbal Theory of Mind in 3- to 4-year-old children, showing different maturation patterns.

The paper predicts Theory of Mind development in children using early brain connectivity patterns from resting-state fMRI data of infants.

The paper shows that children with emerging Theory of Mind activate cerebellar regions similar to adults and exhibit distinct functional connectivity patterns related to ToM development.

This study assesses visual attention in toddlers using eye-tracking data from 350 participants and introduces a shared data resource for research.

The paper investigates how peer presence affects brain activity during different tasks in children and adults, finding task-independent neural changes in social cognition networks.

The paper shows that delayed maturation of semantic control in the prefrontal cortex supports conceptual learning by allowing flexible use of conceptual knowledge during development.

This study compares neural activation patterns in the temporo-parietal junction during visual perspective taking and theory of mind tasks, finding overlapping yet distinct representations.

This study examines ToM deficits in brain tumor patients, finding a double dissociation between parietal and temporal lobe damage affecting cognitive and affective ToM components.

The paper investigates how the right temporoparietal junction (TPJ) encodes mental states during theory of mind tasks, finding it reflects the cartoon character's perspective rather than the truth of beliefs.

This study shows that right temporoparietal and inferior frontal brain regions are necessary for understanding others' knowledge and beliefs.

This study identifies three cognitive mechanisms—prior beliefs, prior uncertainty, and uncertainty tolerance—that drive age-related changes in belief updates about peer trustworthiness during adolescence.

This study uses fMRI to examine brain networks involved in pragmatic language processing in adolescents, finding stronger activation for indirect affective replies compared to other types.

This study investigates the neural correlates of spontaneous theory of mind using fMRI mega-analysis, finding activation in posterior parietal cortex and visuospatial regions, but not medial prefrontal cortex.