Mindreaders: The Cognitive Basis of "Theory of Mind"

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Neural Theory-of-Mind? On the Limits of Social Intelligence in Large LMs (2022, background): “What is Theory of Mind? Theory of Mind (TOM) describes the ability that we, as humans, have to ascribe and infer the mental states of others, and to predict which likely actions they are going to take (Apperly, 2010).”
Individual Differences in Theory of Mind From Preschool to Adolescence: Achievements and Directions (2015, unknown): “rely on social scripts, behavioral cues, and narratives to guide their actions in social situations (28).”
Is adolescence a sensitive period for sociocultural processing? (2014, background): “Most paradigms have been designed to investigate social cognition (in particular, theory of mind) in young children and result in ceiling effects after mid-childhood (Apperly 2010).”
Cognitive Architecture of Belief Reasoning in Children and Adults: A Primer on the Two-Systems Account (2016, background): “gest that constraints on information processing play a deeper and more nuanced developmental role in the construction, maintenance, and use of belief concepts, in addition to lasting roles in the mature mindreading system (12).”
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy (2017, background): “Perhaps the infant is merely very good at behavior-reading, i.e., sensitive to observable behavior and capable of reasoning about such behavior (for instance in a way that allows it to predict and anticipate certain outcomes) (Apperly 2011, p. 151).”