Humans are ultrasocial, yet, theories of cognition have often been occupied with the solitary
mind. Over the past decade, an increasing volume of work has revealed how individual …

Abstract Theory of mind (ToM) is defined as the ability to attribute mental states to oneself
and others and is often said to be one of the cornerstones of efficient social interaction. In …

People spontaneously attend where others are looking. Recently, it has been debated
whether such orienting behaviour is supported by domain-general attentional processes …

Abstract Reasoning about what other people see, know, and want is essential for navigating
social life. Yet, even neurodevelopmentally healthy adults make perspective-taking errors …

Data from a range of different experimental paradigms—in particular (but not only) the dot
perspective task—have been interpreted as evidence that humans automatically track the …

Although reasoning about other people's mental states has typically been thought to require
effortful deliberation, evidence from indirect measures suggests that people may implicitly …

This study aimed to test whether individual differences in perspective taking could be
explained with two underpinning cognitive dimensions: The ability to handle the conflict …

In recent years, there has been a heated debate about how to interpret findings that seem to
show that humans rapidly and automatically calculate the visual perspectives of others. In …

Abstract Reasoning about other people's mental states is central to social life. Yet, even
neuro-typical adults sometimes have perspective-taking difficulties, particularly when …

Abstract Purpose of Review Visual perspective taking (VPT) enables us to understand,
anticipate, and interact with other social beings by accurately computing how and what they …