... in animals through experiments on rodents. Preconcern is a phenomenon where there is a blind attraction of an organism toward other distressed organisms to make contact and to comfort them. This chapter discusses the theory of mind mechanism in animals, where the animals copy each others’ emotions to make...

...) oriented also toward their own minds. The author argues that the sociocultural tasks and practices which children must assimilate and engage in competently demand the development of an intuitive psychology (also known as theory of mind or mind reading); the intuitive psychology assembles a suite...

... and mental state inferences False belief task Metacognition Sally Anne task Theory of mind ToM and mental state inferences Mind perception and mental state inferences McGurk effect Simulation theory vs theory theory account of mental states Theory theory vs simulation theory account of mental states...

.... For example, recent research underscores the importance of an infant's ability to follow the intentions of language speakers in order to learn the meaning of words. The ability to achieve joint attention is typically taken to be thanks to a theory of mind in which the child infers intentions or reads minds...

...This chapter looks at some nonmaterialist or idealist approaches to the theory of mind, focusing on the views of Rene Descartes and George Berkeley. It discusses the existence of certain sorts of mental phenomena in relation to the existence of nonmental phenomena, and considers whether the theory...

... decisions of interacting players. McCabe K Singer T decision making empathy Social decision making theory of mind ToM trust ultimatum game game theory mentalizing Nash equilibrium NE O’Doherty J P O’Reilly R C Schultz W control dopamine goal directed control Bering J M Frith C D Frith U...

... the role of the frontal lobes in empathy, the link between impaired empathic ability and lesions in the prefrontal cortex, and the relationship between theory of mind and cognitive empathy. Brothers L Davis M H Decety J DeKosky S T de Waal F B M Epstein N Eslinger P J Grattan L M Hoffman M L...

... as a theory of mind emerged from positivism, not through introspecting on the meaning of mental state terms, but through examining how and under what conditions mental predicates are applied. However, a clear and logical criterion for distinguishing between observation sentences and theoretical sentences...

... planning readiness potential representations consciousness Descartes embodiment individualism mirroring mirror neuron system perspective taking representationalism simulation social mirroring theory of mind affordances cognitivism Dewey John Dreyfus Hubert Gibson James J Heidegger Martin...

... Embodied meaning Noë Alva O’Regan J K Cognitive niches De Haan S cognitive archaeology radical enactivism early body ornaments Neanderthals theory of mind material engagement Neanderthals were a species of the genus Homo closely related to Homo sapiens, living...

... a social brain. There are four components that help build a social brain, each of which involves distinct functional brain regions: Self-awareness, theory of mind, detection of threat, and self-regulation. Functional neuroimaging Gazzaniga Michael S Magnetic resonance imaging MRI Functional magnetic...

...This chapter explains the problem faced by the computational theory of mind (CTM) caused by the context-sensitive nature of beliefs and the context-insensitive nature of syntactic properties, which are both elements of cognition. The discussion begins by outlining the notion of syntax...

...This chapter illustrates how philosophers endeavoring to integrate mentality into the world that science investigates naturally turn their gaze to computational approaches in cognitive science, such as the computational theory of mind. Three main problems lead to the suspicion that language...

... unity Michael Tye representationalist phenomenal properties intentional objects perception perceptual experience representational theory of mind transparency thesis The target of this essay is Michael Tye’s theory of phenomenal unity. I will argue that Tye’s theory is not consistent with clear...

... Theory theory vs simulation theory account of mental states Developmental psychology Theory of mind Simulationists Theory-theory Fritz Heider Social cognition development Inherent rational agent Telelogical stance Two balls are rolling. The first ball suddenly becomes stationary. The second ball...

...This chapter provides an account of the nature of language of thought’s (LOT) mental symbols. Through a two-fold dialectical strategy, an argument is presented to make the case that LOT and computational theory of mind (CTM) should type symbols based on the role they play in the algorithms...

... a natural kind of symbol classified by its total computational role. If the third condition is not satisfied, cognitive science will either be incomplete or its laws will have counterexamples. The second argument also presents problems for computational theory of mind (CTM), because CTM holds that cognitive...

... inference proprioceptive prediction error reflex arc attention control motor control counterfactual reasoning mind reading predictive processing reasoning sensorimotor contingencies SMCs theory of mind autism consciousness emotion hidden states interoceptive inference interoceptive...

... of the Computational Theory of Mind (CTM) in general and the LOTH as perhaps the most influential instantiation of the CTM; then a countermodel is offered based the actual emergence of thought out of embodied (affective-becoming-cognitive) communication with others. The chapter sticks to the verbal-labels model...