Development of Theory of Mind Stimuli in Magnetoencephalography for Nursing Evaluation

We introduce the development of animation stimuli for theory of mind (ToM) in magnetoencepalography (MEG). We will discuss apparatus for presenting animation stimuli and a technical problem like an eye movement signal generated from following triangles in the animations, and its rejection using independent component analysis (ICA). With the ToM animations and the apparatus, we conducted MEG measurements for 8 normal controls and 6 schizophrenic patients. We present a preliminary assessment result for the developed animation stimuli as a tool for ToM test, which has been obtained by scoring in the followingup interview after the MEG measurement.