Topic: local-to-global connectivity

Mentalizing, the ability of perspective-taking, underlies individuals’ healthy social functioning and is supported by a core brain network, including temporoparietal and prefrontal regions. Evidence suggests similar brain regions to be recruited during mentalizing already in early childhood (Fehlbaum et al.,2022), but the changes of functional correlates in correspondence to neural network formation (i.e., functional connectivity (FC)) have yet to be tested. Here we report data from 81 typically developing children (6-14 y, mean=10.06 y; 29 girls) who completed CAToon (Borbás et al.,2020), an