Since the BBS article in which Premack and Woodruff (1978) asked “Does the chimpanzee
have a theory of mind?,” it has been repeatedly claimed that there is observational and …

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 …

Human social life depends on theory of mind, the ability to attribute mental states to oneself
and others. A signature of theory of mind, false belief understanding, requires representing …

The ability to infer others' mental states is essential to social interactions. This ability,
critically evaluated by testing whether one attributes false beliefs (FBs) to others, has been …

Languages tend to encode events from the perspective of agents, placing them first and in
simpler forms than patients. This agent bias is mirrored by cognition: Agents are more …

Over the past 50 years there has been a strong interest in applying eye-tracking techniques
to study a myriad of questions related to human and nonhuman primate psychological …

Over the past decade, noninvasive, restraint‐free eye‐tracking research with primates has
transformed our understanding of primate social cognition. The use of this technology with …

An important question in the study of canine cognition is how dogs understand humans,
given that they show impressive abilities for interacting and communicating with us. In this …

Humans rely on dogs for countless tasks, ranging from companionship to highly specialized
detection work. In their daily lives, dogs must navigate a human-built visual world, yet …

This chapter is set against the background of one of the most important pragmatic models of
language: the ostensive-inferential model advanced by Sperber and Wilson (1986) with …