The nativist view of mentalizing—the view that humans have an inherent capacity to think
about the mental states of others—has been recently reinvigorated by reports that adults and …

Recent studies have suggested that the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) contributes both to
understanding the mental states of others and to introspecting about one's own mind. This …

How people assign mental states to others and how they represent or conceptualize such
states in the first place are topics of interest to philosophy of mind, developmental …

When we mentalize we are engaged in a form of (mostly preconscious) imaginative mental
activity that enables us to perceive and interpret human behaviour in terms of intentional …

In the director task (DT), participants are instructed to move objects within a grid of shelves
while ignoring those objects that cannot be seen by a human figure, the “director,” located …

The ability to attribute mental states to others is crucial for social competency. To assess
mentalizing abilities, in false-belief tasks participants attempt to identify an actor's belief …

Although many examples exist for shared neural representations of self and other, it is
unknown how such shared representations interact with the rest of the brain. Furthermore …

Recently, philosophers and psychologists defending the embodied cognition research
program have offered arguments against mindreading as a general model of our social …

Mentalizing, conventionally defined as the process in which we infer the inner thoughts and
intentions of others, is a fundamental component of human social cognition. Yet its role, and …

In the last 15 years, Theory of Mind research has been revolutionized by the development of
new implicit tasks. Such tasks aim at tapping children's and adults' uninstructed, largely …