A fundamental issue in cognitive neuroscience is how the brain encodes others' actions and
intentions. In recent years, a potential advance in our knowledge on this issue is the …

Theory of Mind (ToM) is a multifaceted skill set which encompasses a variety of cognitive
and neurobiological aspects. ToM deficits have long been regarded as one of the most …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

Successful mindreading entails both the ability to think about what others know or believe,
and to use this knowledge to generate predictions about how mental states will influence …

Studying human infants will increase our understanding of the nature, origins and function of
neural mirroring mechanisms. Human infants are prolific imitators. Infant imitation indicates …

Our capacity to use tools and objects is often considered one of the hallmarks of the human
species. Many objects greatly extend our bodily capabilities to act in the physical world, such …

Adults routinely make sense of others' actions by inferring the mental states that underlie
these actions. Over the past two decades, developmental researchers have made significant …

One fundamental question in psychology is what makes humans such intensely social
beings. Probing the developmental and neural origins of our social capacities is a way of …

For over 35 years, the violation-of-expectation paradigm has been used to study the
development of expectations in the first 3 years of life. A wide range of expectations has …

To what extent does language shape how we think about the world? Studies suggest that
linguistic symbols expressing conceptual categories ('apple','squirrel') make us focus on …