Abstract Language is a defining characteristic of our species, but the function, or functions,
that it serves has been debated for centuries. Here we bring recent evidence from …

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 …

In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based
theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in …

Numerous studies show that children's language ability is related to false‐belief
understanding. However, there is considerable variation in the size of the correlation …

Anyone sufficiently motivated to take an undergraduate or graduate course in this area
should find [in this book] a great deal to intrigue the imagination and stimulate further interest …

Once signed languages are recognized as natural human languages, a world of exploration
opens up. Signed languages provide a powerful tool for investigating the nature of human …

This book is a comprehensive development and defense of one of the guiding assumptions
of evolutionary psychology: that the human mind is composed of a large number of semi …

How can phenomenal consciousness exist as an integral part of a physical universe? How
can the technicolour phenomenology of our inner lives be created out of the complex neural …

The notion of an average expectable environment for promoting normal development
proposes that there are species‐specific ranges of environmental conditions that elicit …

Children aged 3–12 years (n= 184) with typical development, deafness, autism, or Asperger
syndrome took a series of theory‐of‐mind (ToM) tasks to confirm and extend previous …