Editing Cognitive development (section)

==== Understanding of others' intentions ====
Kobayashi et al. compared American-English monolingual and Japanese-English bilingual children's brain responses in understanding others' intentions through [[false-belief]] story and cartoon tasks. They found universal activation of the region bilateral [[ventromedial prefrontal cortex]] in [[theory of mind]] tasks. However, American children showed greater activity in the left inferior frontal gyrus during the tasks whereas Japanese children had greater activity in the right inferior frontal gyrus during the Japanese Theory of Mind tasks. In conclusion, these examples suggest that the brain's neural activities are not universal but are culture dependent.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Kobayashi | first1 = C. |author2-link=Gary H. Glover | last2 = Glover | first2 = G. H. | last3 = Temple | first3 = E. | year = 2007 | title = Cultural and linguistic effects on neural bases of 'theory of mind' in American and Japanese children | journal = Brain Research | volume = 1164 | issue = 1| pages = 95–107 | doi=10.1016/j.brainres.2007.06.022| pmc = 2964053 | pmid=17643400}}</ref>