Our ability to understand the thoughts and feelings of other people does not initially develop
as a theory but as a mechanism. The 'theory of mind'mechanism (ToMM) is part of the core …

The paper reviews of all of the current evidence on Theory of Mind (ToM) abilities in patients
with neurodegenerative diseases. ToM refers to the abilities to attribute mental states to …

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 …

Assessing what other people know and believe is critical for accurately understanding
human action. Young children find it difficult to reason about false beliefs (ie, beliefs that …

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of the burgeoning literature on
theory of mind (TOM) after the preschool years and the first to integrate this literature with …

In their first years, children's understanding of mental states seems to improve dramatically,
but the mechanisms underlying these changes are still unclear. Such 'theory of mind'(ToM) …

This chapter is intended as a broad introduction to the concept of inhibition in cognition and
consequently to this book as a whole. For this reason, I take no strong stand on the value of …

Social interactions come with the fundamental problem of trying to understand others' mental
and affective states while under the overpowering influence of one's own concurrent …

Effective belief-desire reasoning requires both specialized representational capacities—the
capacity to represent the mental states as such—as well as executive selection processes …

Understanding the operating characteristics of theory of mind is essential for understanding
how beliefs, desires, and other mental states are inferred, and for understanding the role …