@article{BreilBoeckler2020,
  author    = {Breil, Christina and B{\"o}ckler, Anne},
  title     = {The Lens Shapes the View: on Task Dependency in ToM Research},
  series = {Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports},
  doi       = {10.1007/s40473-020-00205-6},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-232646},
  pages     = {41-50},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Purpose of Review This article provides an overview of current findings on Theory of Mind (ToM) in human children and adults and highlights the relationship between task specifications and their outcome in socio-cognitive research. Recent Findings ToM, the capacity to reason about and infer others' mental states, develops progressively throughout childhood—the exact time course is still a matter of debate. Neuroimaging studies indicate the involvement of a widespread neuronal network during mentalizing, suggesting that ToM is a multifaceted process. Accordingly, the tasks and trainings that currently exist to investigate and enhance ToM are heterogeneous, and the outcomes largely depend on the paradigm that was used. Summary We argue for the implementation of multiple-task batteries in the assessment of socio-cognitive abilities. Decisions for a particular paradigm need to be carefully considered and justified. We want to emphasize the importance of targeted research on the relationship between task specifications and outcomes.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HerbertSfaerleaBlumenthal2013,
  author    = {Herbert, Cornelia and Sf{\"a}rlea, Anca and Blumenthal, Terry},
  title     = {Your emotion or mine: labeling feelings alters emotional face perception—an ERP study on automatic and intentional affect labeling},
  series = {Frontiers in Human Neuroscience},
  journal   = {Frontiers in Human Neuroscience},
  doi       = {10.3389/fnhum.2013.00378},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-97065},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Empirical evidence suggests that words are powerful regulators of emotion processing. Although a number of studies have used words as contextual cues for emotion processing, the role of what is being labeled by the words (i.e., one's own emotion as compared to the emotion expressed by the sender) is poorly understood. The present study reports results from two experiments which used ERP methodology to evaluate the impact of emotional faces and self- vs. sender-related emotional pronoun-noun pairs (e.g., my fear vs. his fear) as cues for emotional face processing. The influence of self- and sender-related cues on the processing of fearful, angry and happy faces was investigated in two contexts: an automatic (experiment 1) and intentional affect labeling task (experiment 2), along with control conditions of passive face processing. ERP patterns varied as a function of the label's reference (self vs. sender) and the intentionality of the labeling task (experiment 1 vs. experiment 2). In experiment 1, self-related labels increased the motivational relevance of the emotional faces in the time-window of the EPN component. Processing of sender-related labels improved emotion recognition specifically for fearful faces in the N170 time-window. Spontaneous processing of affective labels modulated later stages of face processing as well. Amplitudes of the late positive potential (LPP) were reduced for fearful, happy, and angry faces relative to the control condition of passive viewing. During intentional regulation (experiment 2) amplitudes of the LPP were enhanced for emotional faces when subjects used the self-related emotion labels to label their own emotion during face processing, and they rated the faces as higher in arousal than the emotional faces that had been presented in the "label sender's emotion" condition or the passive viewing condition. The present results argue in favor of a differentiated view of language-as-context for emotion processing.},
  language  = {en}
}