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 …

Understanding the origins of human social cognition is a central challenge in contemporary
science. In recent decades, the idea of a 'Theory of Mind'(ToM) has emerged as the most …

Research on the capacity to understand others' minds has tended to focus on
representations of beliefs, which are widely taken to be among the most central and basic …

People are intuitive Dualists—they tacitly consider the mind as ethereal, distinct from the
body. Here we ask whether Dualism emerges naturally from the conflicting core principles …

Highlights•Scholars have hypothesized that shared intentionality aids human
ultrasociality.•We assessed whether dogs also show behavioural signatures of shared …

In this commentary, we argue that Phillips et al.'s findings can be used to provide new
important insights in the debate between externalists' theories of cognition. In particular, we …

Theory of Mind (ToM)—the ability to infer others' mental states—is a fundamental part of
human social cognition. For decades, researchers have studied whether nonhuman …

Phillips and colleagues claim that the capacity to ascribe knowledge is a “basic” capacity,
but most studies reporting linguistic data reviewed by Phillips et al. were conducted in …

One of the most fundamental questions in cognitive science pertains to how the mind
emerges and develops, that is, what is the origin of mind? In this article we use comparative …

Can non-human primates (NHPs) represent other minds? Answering this question has been
historically difficult because primates can fail experimental tasks due to a lack of motivation …