Adaiah P Soibi-Harry, Gbemisola E Osanyin, Kehinde S Okunade, Bosede B Afolabi
Neonatal Outcomes of Early Term Versus Late-Term Births in a University Teaching Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria
Cureus
nine normal volunteers performed theory mind task regional brain blood flow pattern recorded using pet 15oh2o technique control conditions induced subjects attend visual semantic attributes known objects third condition subjects infer function unfamiliar object form theory mind condition subjects infer function based form familiar unfamiliar objects addition model knowledge rationality another mind function objects performance theory mind condition evoked activation distributed set neural networks prominent activation left medial frontal lobe brodmann area 9 left temporal lobe brodmann areas 21 3919 38 result suggests inferential reasoning depends constructing mental model beliefs intentions others participation prefrontal cortex required access knowledge affected central nervous system dysfunction found autism modeling minds may prove difficult