Faux pas deficits in people with medial frontal lesions as related to impaired understanding of a speaker's mental state

摘要: Abstract This study examined the nature of deficits in mentalizing, ability to read mental state other people, as measured by a faux pas task people with medial frontal lesions. A total 56 Mandarin-speaking Chinese individuals participated (9 participants lesions, 12 lateral 5 non-frontal and 30 healthy controls). The test ascertained participants’ identify understand social pas, states characters (the speaker recipient conversation pas). Although lesions performed less well than clinical control on all aspects test, most significant deficit was observed understanding hence inferring speaker's intentions. performance various decoding suggests that cognitive processes, respective neural correlates subserving these may be different. Our results add existing literature illustrate very experienced data have also prompted future behavioral neuroimaging studies applied further decode both mechanisms variables affecting “mentalizing”.