Socio-cognitive skills are crucial for successful interpersonal interactions. Two particularly
important socio-cognitive processes are emotion perception (EP) and theory of mind (ToM) …

What is the nature of our ability to understand and reason about the beliefs of others—the
possession of a'theory of mind', or ToM? Here, we review findings from imaging and lesion …

Theory of mind, or" mindreading" as it is termed in this book, is the ability to think about
beliefs, desires, knowledge and intentions. It has been studied extensively by …

This important resource presents the latest information on brain-behavior relationships and
describes ways school practitioners can apply neuropsychological principles in their work …

Many children and adults experience significant breakdown in the use of language. The
resulting pragmatic disorders present a considerable barrier to effective communication …

A model of the functional and anatomical basis of belief reasoning is essential for
understanding the relationship between belief reasoning and other cognitive processes in …

This study investigated whether people with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) demonstrate
a specific impairment on tasks requiring them to make inferences about others' mental states …

In reasoning about strategic interpersonal situations, such as in playing games, an
individual's representation of the situation often includes not only information about the …

Impaired theory of mind (ToM) reasoning is considered an underlying cause of social
cognition deficits in patients with acquired brain injury (ABI). However, the literature does not …

There is now an extensive empirical literature on the nature and extent of pragmatic
disorders in a range of clinical populations. This chapter attempts to organize the findings of …