中文摘要：

人的成年人的中间的前额的外皮(MPFC ) 涉及把心理状态归因于真实人的代理人然而并非到虚拟人工的人物。这研究检验了如此的微分 MPFC 活动是否能在是动画片比成年人迷住的更多的孩子被观察。当 10 岁的孩子看了电影和动画片片断时，我们用功能的磁性的回声成像(fMRI ) 测量了大脑活动，分别地模仿真实、虚拟的视觉世界。我们看了与成年人相对照，孩子的 MPFC 被激活的 neuroimaging 证据是否在协调视觉事件察觉人的代理人和人工的人物。我们的调查结果建议在 10 年的年龄附近，在孩子的 MPFC 活动在成年人与那不同因为它能被非人类的代理人自发地在一个虚拟视觉世界上激活。

英文摘要：

The medial prefrontal cortex （MPFC） of human adults is involved in attributing mental states to real human agents but not to virtual artificial characters. This study examined whether such differential MPFC activity can be observed in children who are more fascinated by cartoons than adults. We measured brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging （fMRI） while lO-year-old children watched movie and cartoon clips, simulating real and virtual visual worlds, respectively. We showed neuroimaging evidence that, in contrast to adults, the MPFC of children was activated when perceiving both human agents and artificial characters in coherent visual events. Our findings suggest that, around the age of 10 years, the MPFC activity in children is different from that in adults in that it can be spontaneously activated by non-human agents in a virtual visual world.