Recent accounts of pretense have been underdescribed in a number of ways. In this paper,
we present a much more explicit cognitive account of pretense. We begin by describing a …

Three experiments investigated whether 2 characteristic aspects of the psychological profile
of autism, theory-of-mind deficits and weak central coherence, might be functionally related …

Deaf children frequently have trouble understanding other people's emotions. It has been
suggested that an impaired theory of mind can account for this. This research focused on the …

Children with autism are said to be poor mind readers: They have a limited understanding of
the role that mental states play in determining emotions and behavior. In this research, 23 …

An evolutionary approach to the cognitive neuroscience of autism generated the “theory of
mind”(ToM) hypothesis. Most of its predictions of selective deficits in this domain have been …

Introspection plays a crucial role in modern philosophy in two different ways. From the
beginnings of modern philosophy, introspection has been used as a tool for philosophical …

The problem of consciousness seems to arise from experience itself. As we shall consider in
more detail below, we are strongly disposed to contrast conscious experience with the …

Here I outline an" embodied action" approach to Cognitive Science, w hose central
assumption is that human beings are essentially embodied, embedded in a world and …