This paper provides a minimalist framework for understanding the development of children's
theory of mind (ToM). First, I provide a critical analysis of rich interpretations of ToM tasks …

We examine children, childhood, and development from an evolutionary perspective. We
begin by reviewing major assumptions of evolutionary–developmental psychology …

Developmental psychologists coined the term" theory of mind" to describe how we
understand our shifting mental states in daily life. Over the past twenty years researchers …

We study sequential decision making in environments where rewards are only partially
observed, but can be modeled as a function of observed contexts and the chosen action by …

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 …

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when
we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world …

Dominant educational approaches in chemistry focus on the learning of somewhat isolated
concepts and ideas about chemical substances and reactions. Reform efforts often seek to …

Various arguments are reviewed about the claim that language development is critically
connected to the development of theory of mind. The different theories of how language …

The study assessed the relations among acuity of the inherent approximate number system
(ANS), performance on measures of symbolic quantitative knowledge, and mathematics …

Most syntacticians, no matter their theoretical persuasion, agree that features (types or
categories) are the most important units of analysis. Within Chomskyan generative grammar …