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 …

In this article, we present evidence that in four different cultural groups that speak quite
different languages (Brazil, India, Japan, and the USA) there are cases of justified true …

We naturally evaluate the beliefs of others, sometimes by deliberate calculation, and
sometimes in a more immediate fashion. Epistemic intuitions are immediate assessments …

Children might combine gesture and prosody to express a pragmatic meaning such as a
request, information focus, uncertainty or politeness, before they can convey these …

My aim in this chapter is to reassess the conceptual-procedural distinction in the light of the
last twenty years of research, and to consider some possible revisions or extensions. The …

Research on the capacity to understand others' minds has tended to focus on
representations of beliefs, which are widely taken to be among the most central and basic …

Mental-content verbs such as think, believe, imagine and hope seem to pose special
problems for the young language learner. One possible explanation for these difficulties is …

The human capacity to reason about others' minds includes making causal inferences about
intentions, beliefs, values, and goals. Previous fMRI research has suggested that a network …

Research on preschoolers' selective learning has mostly been conducted in English-
speaking countries. We compared the performance of Turkish preschoolers (who are …

For externalists, semantic content–meaning–consists in the connection between language
and the external environment: words' meaning, roughly speaking, is their reference to the …