Theory of mind is independent of episodic memory.

نویسندگان

  • R Shayna Rosenbaum
  • Donald T Stuss
  • Brian Levine
  • Endel Tulving
چکیده

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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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Science

دوره 318 5854  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007