In recent decades, the ability to represent others' mental states (ie, theory of mind) has
gained particular attention in various disciplines ranging from ethology to cognitive …

Abstract Theory of mind is the human conceptual capacity to understand other people as
agents who have subjective mental states such as beliefs, desires, and intentions. It is the …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

Intense controversy surrounds the question of when children first understand that others can
hold false beliefs. Results from traditional tasks suggest that false-belief understanding does …

Abstract Theory of mind (ToM; aka, mind‐reading, mentalizing, mental‐state attribution, and
perspective‐taking) is the ability to ascribe mental states, such as desires and beliefs, to …

Can infants appreciate that others have false beliefs? Do they have a theory of mind? In this
article I provide a detailed review of more than 20 experiments that have addressed these …

This paper provides a minimalist framework for understanding the development of children's
theory of mind (ToM). First, I provide a critical analysis of rich interpretations of ToM tasks …

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 …

Evidence is accumulating that infants are sensitive to people's false beliefs, whereas
children pass the standard false belief test at around 4 years of age. Debate currently …

Abstract The commentary by Baillargeon, Buttelmann and Southgate raises a number of
crucial issues concerning the replicability and validity of measures of false belief in infancy …