Characterizing the cognitive architecture of human mindreading forces us to address two
puzzles in people's attributions of belief: Why children show inconsistent expectations about …

Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it
develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective …

A growing body of infant studies with various implicit, non-verbal measures has suggested
that Theory of Mind (ToM) may emerge much earlier than previously assumed. While explicit …

The Centered Mind offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both
reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousness. Peter Carruthers …

Over the past decade, mouse tracking in choice tasks has become a popular method across
psychological science. This method exploits hand movements as a measure of multiple …

Recently, theory-of-mind research has been revolutionized by findings from novel implicit
tasks suggesting that at least some aspects of false-belief reasoning develop earlier in …

Egocentrism is a hallmark of human mentalizing endeavours. People frequently use their
own minds as a point of departure when generating inferences about the minds of others …

Research on the capacity to understand others' minds has tended to focus on
representations of beliefs, which are widely taken to be among the most central and basic …

In recent work, Kovács, Téglás, and Endress (2010) argued that human adults automatically
represented other agents' beliefs even when those beliefs were completely irrelevant to the …

A number of two-systems accounts have been proposed to explain the apparent
discrepancy between infants' early success in nonverbal mindreading tasks, on the one …