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A componential view of theory of mind: evidence from Williams syndrome.
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Evidence is presented that the social-cognitive and social-perceptual components of a theory of mind are dissociable and that in Williams syndrome only the latter components, which are linked to distinct neurobiological substrates, are spared.About:
This article is published in Cognition.The article was published on 2000-07-14. It has received 509 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Williams syndrome & Theory of mind.read more
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Do Humans Have Two Systems to Track Beliefs and Belief-Like States?.
TL;DR: It is proposed that the success of infants and nonhuman animals on some belief reasoning tasks may be best explained by a cognitively efficient but inflexible capacity for tracking belief-like states in humans.
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It's the Thought That Counts: Specific Brain Regions for One Component of Theory of Mind
TL;DR: Investigation of the substrate of the late-developing process in adult brains found three regions responded selectively when subjects read about a protagonist's thoughts, but not when they read about other subjective, internal states or other socially relevant information about a person.
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Theory of mind impairment in schizophrenia: Meta-analysis
TL;DR: The persistence of ToM deficits in "remitted" patients suggests there are trait related mentalising impairments in schizophrenia, and suggests that future research should consider the potential moderating influence of IQ deficits on ToM performance in 'remitted' patients, as well as the potential effects of residual symptoms.
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Understanding Other Minds: Linking Developmental Psychology and Functional Neuroimaging
TL;DR: Neuroimaging reinforces and elaborates upon this view by providing evidence that domain-specific brain regions exist for representing belief contents, and these regions are apparently distinct from other regions engaged in reasoning about goals and actions.
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The social brain in psychiatric and neurological disorders.
Daniel P. Kennedy,Ralph Adolphs +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the social brain, and its dysfunction and recovery, must be understood not in terms of specific structures, but rather in Terms of their interaction in large-scale networks.
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Does the autistic child have a theory of mind
TL;DR: A new model of metarepresentational development is used to predict a cognitive deficit which could explain a crucial component of the social impairment in childhood autism.
Does the Autistic Child Have a''Theory of Mind''? Cognition
TL;DR: In this paper, a new model of metarepresentational development was used to predict a cognitive deficit in children with autism, which could explain a crucial component of the social impairment in childhood autism.
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Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind
David Premack,Guy Woodruff +1 more
TL;DR: This paper showed an adult chimpanzee a series of videotaped scenes of a human actor struggling with a variety of problems, some of which were simple, such as bananas vertically or horizontally out of reach, behind a box, and so forth; others were more complex, involving an actor unable to extricate himself from a locked cage, shivering because of a malfunctioning heater, or unable to play a phonograph because it was unplugged.
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Beliefs about beliefs: representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception.
Heinz Wimmer,Josef Perner +1 more
TL;DR: A travelling salesman found himself spending the night at home with his wife when one of his trips was unexpectedly cancelled, and he leapt out from the bed, ran across the room and jumped out the window.
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Mindblindness : An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind
TL;DR: The four steps autism and mindblindness how brains read minds the language of the eyes mindreading - back to the future was discussed in evolutionary psychology and social chess mindreading as discussed by the authors.
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