Intense controversy surrounds the question of when children first understand that others can
hold false beliefs. Results from traditional tasks suggest that false-belief understanding does …

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 …

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 …

Sometimes we accept propositions, sometimes we reject them, and sometimes we take
propositions to be worth considering but not yet established, as merely possible. The result …

When tested with traditional false-belief tasks, which require answering a standard question
about the likely behavior of an agent with a false belief, children perform below chance until …

From early in life, human infants appear capable of taking others' perspectives, and can do
so even when the other's perspective conflicts with the infant's perspective. Infants' success …

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 …

Traditionally, research on early physical reasoning has focused on the simple types of
physical events our distant human ancestors routinely observed and produced as they …

Henry Wellman and colleagues have provided evidence of a robust developmental
progression in theory-of-mind (or as we will say,“mindreading”) abilities, using verbal tasks …

Dysregulation of cortical excitation/inhibition (E/I) has been proposed as a
neuropathological mechanism underlying core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder …