What do theory-of-mind tasks actually measure? Theory and practice

F Quesque, Y Rossetti - Perspectives on Psychological …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

The structure of social cognition: In (ter) dependence of sociocognitive processes

F Happé, JL Cook, G Bird - Annual review of psychology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Social cognition is a topic of enormous interest and much research, but we are far from
having an agreed taxonomy or factor structure of relevant processes. The aim of this review …

[图书][B] Cognitive gadgets: The cultural evolution of thinking

C Heyes - 2018 - books.google.com
“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences...
Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the …

Do large language models know what humans know?

S Trott, C Jones, T Chang, J Michaelov… - Cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Humans can attribute beliefs to others. However, it is unknown to what extent this ability
results from an innate biological endowment or from experience accrued through child …

Deconstructing and reconstructing theory of mind

SM Schaafsma, DW Pfaff, RP Spunt… - Trends in cognitive …, 2015 - cell.com
Usage of the term 'theory of mind'(ToM) has exploded across fields ranging from
developmental psychology to social neuroscience and psychiatry research. However, its …

Theory of mind in animals: Current and future directions

C Krupenye, J Call - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

A fine-grained comparison of pragmatic language understanding in humans and language models

J Hu, S Floyd, O Jouravlev, E Fedorenko… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Pragmatics and non-literal language understanding are essential to human communication,
and present a long-standing challenge for artificial language models. We perform a fine …

The cultural evolution of mind reading

CM Heyes, CD Frith - Science, 2014 - science.org
Background We use “theory of mind” or “mind reading” to understand our own thoughts and
feelings and those of other agents. Mind reading has been a focus of philosophical interest …

How intelligent is a cephalopod? Lessons from comparative cognition

AK Schnell, P Amodio, M Boeckle… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The soft‐bodied cephalopods including octopus, cuttlefish, and squid are broadly
considered to be the most cognitively advanced group of invertebrates. Previous research …

Theory of mind in nonhuman primates

CM Heyes - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1998 - cambridge.org
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 …