A number of convergent recent findings with adults have been interpreted as evidence of the
existence of two distinct systems for mindreading that draw on separate conceptual …

Deception is a controversial aspect of theory of mind, and researchers disagree about
whether it entails an understanding of the false beliefs of one's opponent. The present study …

There is currently a hot debate in the literature regarding whether or not infants have a true
theory of mind (ToM) understanding. According to the mentalistic view, infants possess the …

In the present research, we investigated how 13-month-olds use their emergent theory-of-
mind understanding (ie, understanding about other people's mental states, such as their …

This is a transitory chapter linking Section I on comparative animal studies with the
upcoming Section II on developmental studies with human infants and children. I am …

Recent research indicates that toddlers and infants succeed at various non‐verbal
spontaneous‐response false‐belief tasks; here we asked whether toddlers would also …

Recent research suggests that infants and toddlers succeed at a wide range of non‐elicited‐
response false‐belief tasks (ie, tasks that do not require children to answer a direct question …

Are infants capable of representing false beliefs, as the mentalistic account of early
psychological reasoning suggests, or are they incapable of doing so, as the minimalist …

Recent studies suggest that infants understand that others can have false beliefs. However,
most of these studies have used looking time measures, and the few that have used …

Abstract Language and social cognition come together in communication, but their relation
has been intensely contested. Here, I argue that these two distinctively human abilities are …