Theory of Mind Is Independent of Episodic Memory

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Tập 318 Số 5854 - Trang 1257-1257 - 2007
R. Shayna Rosenbaum1, Donald T. Stuss1, Brian Levine1, Endel Tulving1
1Department of Psychology, York University and Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada.

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Theory of mind (ToM) to infer other people's current mental states and episodic memory of personal happenings have been assumed to be closely related. We report two participants with severely impaired episodic memory who perform indistinguishably from healthy controls on objective ToM tests. These results suggest that ToM can function independently of episodic memory.

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Materials and methods are available on Science Online.

This research was supported by a Focus on Stroke Award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation (HSF) of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and by grants from HSF of Ontario Centre for Stroke Recovery and Louis and Leah Posluns Centre for Stroke and Cognition at Baycrest. We thank R. Bloom S. Gillingham and L. Zackheim for technical assistance and F. Castelli and U. Frith for making available the animations test.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Tập 318 Số 5854

1257-1257

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