Core mechanisms in "theory of mind".

By Alan M. Leslie, O. Friedman, Tim P. German. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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9 Perceiving Animacy and Intentionality: Visual Processing or Higher-Level Judgment? (2013, background): “…of cognitive science, where agency and intentionality are most often studied in the context of so-called 'theory of mind' — the ability to perceive, predict, and explain the behavior of others in terms of their underlying mental states (for reviews, see Leslie et al., 2004; Saxe et al., 2004).”
Mindreading in Infancy (2013, background): “Thus Leslie and Polizzi (1998) postulated a ‘selection processor’ that was slow to mature; and Birch and Bloom (2004) appealed to ‘the curse of knowledge’ combined with immature executive function.”
A constructivist connectionist model of transitions on false-belief tasks. (2013, neutral): “…the model suggests that it is due to avoidance search being less consistent than approach search, a novel explanation that is different but not contradictory to the claim that avoidance tasks require additional inhibition skills (Friedman & Leslie, 2004a, 2004b, 2005; Leslie et al., 2004, 2005).”
Temporo-parietal Junction Activity in Theory-of-Mind Tasks: Falseness, Beliefs, or Attention (2009, background): “One interesting theoretical consequence is that question-triggered belief processing poses a problem for modularity theories of belief–desire reasoning (eg, Leslie, Friedman, & German, 2004 ) because modules are supposedly triggered automatically by relevant information.”
Rational quantitative attribution of beliefs, desires and percepts in human mentalizing (2017, background): “Second, these inferences are genuinely metarepre-sentational 7,29 — they represent other agents’ models of the world, and their beliefs about and desires toward actual and possible world states.”
Educating the Developing Mind: Towards an Overarching Paradigm (2011, background): “The core mechanisms of self-regulation and executive control involve a process of (1) selection by inhibition (Leslie et al. 2004) and (2) a regulatory process that enables the individual to adjust mental or overt action to goals (Gibson and Pick 2003; Zelazo et al. 2003, 2005).”
When does a social norm catch the worm? Disentangling social normative influences on sustainable consumption behaviour (2020, background): “In line with the theory of mind (Bradford, Jentzsch, & Gomez, 2015; Leslie, Friedman, & German, 2004) consumers should be likely to infer underlying world views and values of the submitter from the content of the normative messages they transmit.”
Belief attribution despite verbal interference (2011, background): “On the other hand, belief attribution is also sometimes thought of as an intuitive, automatic form of reasoning that may be independent of language (Apperly, Samson, & Humphreys, 2009; Leslie et al., 2004).”
Theory of Mind and Neurodevelopmental Disorders of Childhood (2011, background): “architecture that is dedicated to ToM processing by which a specific kind of input (information about behavior) is obtained, and a particular output (description of mental states) is produced (21).”
Reintegrating the Study of Accuracy Into Social Cognition Research (2011, background): “As such, one might expect them to work together often in guiding mind perception.”