When children acknowledge false belief they are handling a counterfactual situation. In
three experiments 3-and 4-year-old children were given false belief tasks and physical state …

A powerful feature of human thinking is the ability to reflect on how the world might have
otherwise been, or how it might be under different circumstances rather than how it is …

The Sally-Anne task used to assess children’s understanding of false belief has traditionally
been conceptualized as a test of mental state understanding in that it asks the child where a …

This paper sets out to give sufficient detail to the notion of mental simulation to allow an
appraisal of its contribution to ‘mindreading’ in the context of the ‘false‐belief tasks’ used in …

This volume, derived from the Royal Institute of Philosophy 1992 conference, brings together
some of the leading figures in the burgeoning field of cognitive science to explore current …

* Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Head of School at the School of Computer Science,
University of Birmingham, England. Professor Barnden moved to the University of …

Several authors, from Bartlett (1932) and Piaget (1937/1955) onwards, have argued that the
human cognitive system uses a schema-based architecture. That is: our knowledge is not …

Two programs are described which have been coded for the IBM-704 and are compatible with
the IBM-7090. The programs calculate the neutron andor gamma spectra, heat generation …

Peterson presents a very interesting explanation for why children of less than four years have
deficits in the false belief task and other similar tasks: they have difficulties with the revision …

One aspect of legal reasoning is the act of working out another party’s mental states (their
beliefs, intentions, etc.) and assessing how their reasoning proceeds given various conditions. …