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A 2026 medRxiv preprint involving 44 people with chronic post-stroke aphasia found reduced performance on nonverbal false-belief tasks in 23% of participants on the Reality-Unknown task and …
Read articleA 2026 fMRI study found language and theory-of-mind activation already separated in 54 child sessions from ages 3-9, with strict child overlap near zero in the left superior temporal lobe (D…
Read articleA 2026 PRISMA systematic review by Cavallo et al. in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience aggregates 43 neuroimaging studies of social cognition in adults with stroke or traumatic…
Read articleBetrayal does not just make people less trusting. It can also change what they pay attention to afterward. After a negative social surprise, people may start scanning more closely for signs …
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