Since the BBS article in which Premack and Woodruff (1978) asked “Does the chimpanzee
have a theory of mind?,” it has been repeatedly claimed that there is observational and …

In general, individuals look where they attend and next intend to act. Many animals,
including our own species, use observed gaze as a deictic (“pointing”) cue to guide …

A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be
described in terms of geometric structures. In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gärdenfors …

Humans are extremely sensitive to ostensive signals, like eye contact or having their name
called, that indicate someone's communicative intention toward them [1–3]. Infants also pay …

Everyone agrees that joint attention is a key feature of human social cognition. Yet, despite
over 40 years of work and hundreds of publications on this topic, there is still surprisingly …

I make three related proposals concerning the development of receptive communication in
human infants. First, I propose that the presence of communicative intentions can be …

This is the second of the two closely linked but self-contained volumes that comprise James
Hurford's acclaimed exploration of the biological evolution of language. In the first book he …

As compared with other primates, humans have especially visible eyes (eg, white sclera).
One hypothesis is that this feature of human eyes evolved to make it easier for conspecifics …

Now more than ever animal studies have the potential to test hypotheses regarding how
cognition evolves. Comparative psychologists have developed new techniques to probe the …

Fully updated revision of a classic text offering a thorough understanding of the normal
behavior of domestic animals The Seventh Edition of Domestic Animal Behavior for …