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 …

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 …

How the Body Shapes the Mind is an interdisciplinary work that addresses philosophical
questions by appealing to evidence found in experimental psychology, neuroscience …

Does metacognition, ie the capacity to form epistemic self-evaluations about one's current
cognitive performance, derive from a mindreading capacity, or does it rely, at least in part, on …

Two studies address the sequence of understandings evident in preschoolers' developing
theory of mind. The first, preliminary study provides a meta‐analysis of research comparing …

Over the past twenty years, relevance theory has become a key area of study within
semantics and pragmatics. In this comprehensive new textbook, Billy Clark introduces the …

It is widely believed that people have privileged and authoritative access to their own
thoughts, and many theories have been proposed to explain this supposed fact. The Opacity …

Two-year-olds engage in many behaviors that ostensibly require the attribution of mental
states to other individuals. Yet the overwhelming consensus has been that children of this …

An argument that challenges the dominant" theory theory" and simulation theory approaches
to folk psychology by claiming that our everyday understanding of intentional actions done …

Theory of mind explanations of how we know other minds are limited in several ways. First,
they construe intersubjective relations too narrowly in terms of the specialized cognitive …