Theory of mind and use of cognitive state terms by adolescents with traumatic brain injury

Background: There is growing evidence of impaired social cognition in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Social cognition tests, however, place demands on domain‐general cognitive functions such as auditory working memory, so that test scores might reflect the influence of these factors on test performance rather than domain‐specific social cognition impairments. As an alternative, we examined conversations of adolescents with TBI …