Neurocognitive determinants of theory of mind across the adult lifespan

Although theory of mind (ToM) has been extensively explored in aging, few studies have used the same tool to simultaneously assess and compare its cognitive and affective components. When we administered the Movie for Assessment of Social Cognition, a dynamic sequence of social scenes, to 60 healthy participants (20–75 years), we observed no different age-related decreases in both cognitive and affective ToM. While each component was associated...