Study Sheds Light On Social Brain Development

Children develop social skills by learning how to understand others' thoughts and feelings, or their theory of mind. A new study of EEGs of 4-year-olds shows that theory of mind changes are related to the functional development of two parts of the brain -- the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex and the temporal-parietal juncture. These findings are the first to show that these specialized neural circuits may be there as early as the preschool years.

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