Article: Faux pas deficits in people with medial frontal lesions as related to impaired understanding of a speaker's mental state
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| Title | Faux pas deficits in people with medial frontal lesions as related to impaired understanding of a speaker's mental state | ||||||
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| Authors | Lee, TMC1 Ip, AKY1 Wang, K2 Xi, CH2 Hu, PP2 Mak, HKF1 Han, SH4 Chan, CCH3 | ||||||
| Keywords | Faux pas Frontal lesions Medial frontal region Mental state Mentalizing | ||||||
| Issue Date | 2010 | ||||||
| Publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/neuropsychologia | ||||||
| Citation | Neuropsychologia, 2010, v. 48 n. 6, p. 1670-1676 [How to Cite?] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.02.012 | ||||||
| Abstract | This study examined the nature of deficits in mentalizing, the ability to read the mental state of other people, as measured by a faux pas task in people with medial frontal lesions. A total of 56 Mandarin-speaking Chinese individuals participated (9 participants with medial frontal lesions, 12 participants with lateral frontal lesions, 5 participants with non-frontal lesions, and 30 healthy controls). The faux pas test ascertained the participants' ability to identify and understand a social faux pas, and to understand the mental states of the characters (the speaker and the recipient in a conversation with a social faux pas). Although the participants with medial frontal lesions performed less well than the other clinical participants and the control participants on all aspects of the faux pas test, the most significant deficit was observed in understanding mental states and hence inferring the speaker's intentions. The performance on the various aspects of decoding a social faux pas by people with medial frontal lesions suggests that the cognitive processes, and hence the respective neural correlates subserving these various processes, may be different. Our results add to existing literature and illustrate the very nature of deficits of mentalizing, measured by a faux pas test, experienced by people with medial frontal lesions. The data have also prompted that future behavioral and neuroimaging studies may be applied to further decode both the neural mechanisms and the cognitive variables affecting " mentalizing" © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN | 0028-3932 2011 Impact Factor: 3.636 2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.243 | ||||||
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.02.012 | ||||||
| ISI Accession Number ID | WOS:000278261900015
Funding Information: This project was supported by the May Endowed Professorship of The University of Hong Kong and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (#30828012 and #30670706). We are indebted to Professor Donald T. Stuss for his helpful comments on the manuscript. | ||||||
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| dc.contributor.author | Lee, TMC | ||||||
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| dc.contributor.author | Ip, AKY | ||||||
| dc.contributor.author | Wang, K | ||||||
| dc.contributor.author | Xi, CH | ||||||
| dc.contributor.author | Hu, PP | ||||||
| dc.contributor.author | Mak, HKF | ||||||
| dc.contributor.author | Han, SH | ||||||
| dc.contributor.author | Chan, CCH | ||||||
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-10-31T10:45:36Z | ||||||
| dc.date.available | 2010-10-31T10:45:36Z | ||||||
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | ||||||
| dc.description.abstract | This study examined the nature of deficits in mentalizing, the ability to read the mental state of other people, as measured by a faux pas task in people with medial frontal lesions. A total of 56 Mandarin-speaking Chinese individuals participated (9 participants with medial frontal lesions, 12 participants with lateral frontal lesions, 5 participants with non-frontal lesions, and 30 healthy controls). The faux pas test ascertained the participants' ability to identify and understand a social faux pas, and to understand the mental states of the characters (the speaker and the recipient in a conversation with a social faux pas). Although the participants with medial frontal lesions performed less well than the other clinical participants and the control participants on all aspects of the faux pas test, the most significant deficit was observed in understanding mental states and hence inferring the speaker's intentions. The performance on the various aspects of decoding a social faux pas by people with medial frontal lesions suggests that the cognitive processes, and hence the respective neural correlates subserving these various processes, may be different. Our results add to existing literature and illustrate the very nature of deficits of mentalizing, measured by a faux pas test, experienced by people with medial frontal lesions. The data have also prompted that future behavioral and neuroimaging studies may be applied to further decode both the neural mechanisms and the cognitive variables affecting " mentalizing" © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. | ||||||
| dc.description.nature | Link_to_subscribed_fulltext | ||||||
| dc.identifier.citation | Neuropsychologia, 2010, v. 48 n. 6, p. 1670-1676 [How to Cite?] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.02.012 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.citeulike | 6862443 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.02.012 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.epage | 1676 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 178831 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000278261900015
Funding Information: This project was supported by the May Endowed Professorship of The University of Hong Kong and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (#30828012 and #30670706). We are indebted to Professor Donald T. Stuss for his helpful comments on the manuscript. | ||||||
| dc.identifier.issn | 0028-3932 2011 Impact Factor: 3.636 2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.243 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.issue | 6 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.openurl | | ||||||
| dc.identifier.pmid | 20156464 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-77952549380 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.spage | 1670 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/124636 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.volume | 48 | ||||||
| dc.language | eng | ||||||
| dc.publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/neuropsychologia | ||||||
| dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | ||||||
| dc.relation.ispartof | Neuropsychologia | ||||||
| dc.relation.references | References in Scopus | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Adult | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Analysis of Variance | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Brain Injuries - pathology | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Case-Control Studies | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Cognition Disorders | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Comprehension - physiology | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Female | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Frontal Lobe - pathology - physiopathology | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Humans | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Male | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Mental Status Schedule | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Middle Aged | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Neuropsychological Tests | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Social Perception | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Theory of Mind - physiology | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Thinking | ||||||
| dc.subject | Faux pas | ||||||
| dc.subject | Frontal lesions | ||||||
| dc.subject | Medial frontal region | ||||||
| dc.subject | Mental state | ||||||
| dc.subject | Mentalizing | ||||||
| dc.title | Faux pas deficits in people with medial frontal lesions as related to impaired understanding of a speaker's mental state | ||||||
| dc.type | Article |
Author Affiliations
- The University of Hong Kong
- Anhui Medical University
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Peking University