This study investigated whether humans have two mind‐reading systems whereby the
efficient system, unlike the flexible system, is naturally limited. There were two experiments …

Nativists about theory of mind have typically explained why children below the age of four
fail the false belief task by appealing to the demands that these tasks place on children's …

The focus of this chapter is in what role syntactic recursion might play in the representation
of propositional attitudes. Syntactic complements under mental and communication verbs …

Recent research suggests that action-based tasks with nonverbal response formats
evidence false-belief understanding at an age at which children usually fail classical verbal …

Gricean Circle, 84 Gricean Maxims, 353, 373 grounding biological, 3, 349, 354, 358, 372,
373 cognitive, 109, 117 hedge attitudinal hedge, 326, 330, 338, 341 epistemic hedge, 323 …

Human beings, even very young infants, and members of several other species, exhibit
remarkable capacities for attending to and engaging with others. These basic capacities …

We examined the effects of epistemic verb training on preschoolers' implicit and explicit
inferences about epistemic states. Eighty-four children (mean age 3; 5), who initially failed …

According to the thesis of natural mindreading (NMRT), mindreading—ie, the capacity to
attribute mental states to predict and explain behavior—is an intrinsic component of the …

Why would one study theory of mind in adults? This question would seem ridiculous in
almost any other domain of cognition. Yet in more than 30 years of exciting research on …

Heyes's book is an important contribution that rightly integrates cognitive development and
cultural evolution. However, understanding the cultural evolution of cognitive gadgets …