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Mindreading Making sense of other people  Mindreading Common practice of attributing mental states (propositional attitudes) to other people to explain and predict their behavior  “Theory of mind concerns our ability, not simply to have beliefs as such, but...

Mindreading Making sense of other people  Mindreading Common practice of attributing mental states (propositional attitudes) to other people to explain and predict their behavior  “Theory of mind concerns our ability, not simply to have beliefs as such, but to have beliefs about mental states, including the recursive ability to have beliefs about beliefs. Of the various mental states, at least three states appear to be basic to our commonsense explanations: desires (which identify an agent’s goals), beliefs (which reflect what an agent takes the state of the world to be), and pretence (because people do not always mean what they do or say).” Leslie, A.M. “Theory of Mind”, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Friend Imaginary “Friend” Friend The earth is round The Sarah earth believes is “The earth round is round.” The earth is Sarah round believes “The earth is flat.”  “The The Sarah earth is earth believes round” is “The round earth is flat.” Pretend METAREPRESENTAT PRIMARY ION REPRESENTATION This This is a banana: banana. it is a telephon e Pretense to Mindreading In pretend and mindreading primary representations are decoupled form their normal functions to produce a meta-representation When does the mechanism of meta-representation emerge?  False belief task False belief test using a violation of expectations paradigm Infants seem to pass the false belief task at a much lower age Is this testing the same thing as the original false belief task, namely the concept of belief? Implicit vs. Explicit understanding of false belief The Mind Reading System Simon Baron - Cohen 0-9 months: Intentionality Detector, The Emotion Detector, Eye Direction Detector 9-14 months: SAM (Shared Attention Mechanism) 14 months: TESS (The Empathy System) 18-48 months: TOMM (Theory of Mind Mechanism)