Seeing the interactions between other people is a critical part of our everyday visual
experience, but recognizing the social interactions of others is often considered outside the …

We propose that human social cognition is structured around a basic understanding of
ourselves and others as intuitive utility maximizers: from a young age, humans implicitly …

What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for
learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers …

Recent progress in artificial intelligence has renewed interest in building systems that learn
and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained …

Social cognition depends on our capacity for 'mentalizing', or explaining an agent's
behaviour in terms of their mental states. The development and neural substrates of …

We review the idea that Theory of Mind—our ability to reason about other people's mental
states—can be formalized as inverse reinforcement learning. Under this framework …

This paper considers communication in terms of inference about the behaviour of others
(and our own behaviour). It is based on the premise that our sensations are largely …

Although developmental psychologists traditionally explore morality from a learning and
development perspective, some aspects of the human moral sense may be built-in, having …

Infants understand that people pursue goals, but how do they learn which goals people
prefer? We tested whether infants solve this problem by inverting a mental model of action …

A Bayesian framework helps address, in computational terms, what knowledge children start
with and how they construct and adapt models of the world during childhood. Within this …