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 …

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In this commentary on “Memory and Common Ground Processes in Language Use,” I draw
attention to relevant work on mindreading. The concerns of research on common ground …

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Inspired by early proposals in philosophy, dominant accounts of language posit a central
role for mutual knowledge, either encoded directly in common ground, or approximated …

One core question in studies of language processing is the extent to which interlocutors
engage in real-time communicative perspective-taking. Current evidence suggests that both …

Little is known about whether human beings' automatic mindreading is computationally
restricted to processing a limited kind of content, and what exactly the nature of that …

Interpreting other peoples' actions relies on an understanding of their current mental states
(eg beliefs, desires and intentions). In this paper, we distinguish between listeners' ability to …

Abstract Language is learned in complex social settings where listeners must reconstruct
speakers' intended meanings from context. To navigate this challenge, children can use …

Human beings are able to quickly step into others' shoes to predict peoples' actions. There is
little consensus over how this cognitive feat might be accomplished. We tested the …