Foundations of theory of mind and its development in early childhood

H Rakoczy - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Theory of mind is the human conceptual capacity to understand other people as
agents who have subjective mental states such as beliefs, desires, and intentions. It is the …

Theory of mind in animals: Current and future directions

C Krupenye, J Call - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Theory of mind (ToM; aka, mind‐reading, mentalizing, mental‐state attribution, and
perspective‐taking) is the ability to ascribe mental states, such as desires and beliefs, to …

Working memory development: A 50-year assessment of research and underlying theories

N Cowan - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
The author has thought about working memory, not always by that name, since 1969 and
has conducted research on its infant and child development since the same year that the …

Socially evaluative contexts facilitate mentalizing

BM Woo, E Tan, FL Yuen, JK Hamlin - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Our ability to understand others' minds stands at the foundation of human learning,
communication, cooperation, and social life more broadly. Although humans' ability to …

Two systems for thinking about others' thoughts in the developing brain

C Grosse Wiesmann, AD Friederici… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Human social interaction crucially relies on the ability to infer what other people think.
Referred to as Theory of Mind (ToM), this ability has long been argued to emerge around 4 y …

[HTML][HTML] Replications in comparative cognition: what should we expect and how can we improve?

BG Farrar, M Boeckle, NS Clayton - Animal behavior and cognition, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Direct replication studies follow an original experiment's methods as closely as possible.
They provide information about the reliability and validity of an original study's findings. The …

Should infant psychology rely on the violation‐of‐expectation method? Not anymore

M Paulus - Infant and Child Development, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Infant psychology has heavily drawn on the Violation‐of‐Expectation (VoE) method. In this
piece, I analyse the assumptions that go into the VoE method by comparing it with other …

Do non-human primates really represent others' beliefs?

DJ Horschler, EL MacLean, LR Santos - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Over two decades of research have produced compelling evidence that non-human
primates understand some psychological states in other individuals but are unable to …

How does children's theory of mind become explicit? A review of longitudinal findings

B Sodian, S Kristen‐Antonow… - Child Development …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
How does theory of mind become explicit? In this article, we provide a brief overview of
theoretical accounts and then review longitudinal findings on the development of theory of …

[HTML][HTML] Neural correlates of theory of mind reasoning in congenitally blind children

H Richardson, R Saxe, M Bedny - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2023 - Elsevier
Vision is an important source of information about other minds for sighted children,
especially prior to the onset of language. Visually observed actions, eye gaze, and facial …