Do infants really understand false belief? Response to Leslie

Ted Ruffman; Josef Perner

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2005.08.001

Do infants really understand false belief? Response to Leslie

Ted Ruffman^*, Josef Perner

^*Corresponding author for this work

Psychology

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Abstract

A recent article by Onishi and Baillargeon presents evidence that 15-month-old infants attribute false beliefs (FBs) to other people. If correct, it lends dramatic new support to the idea that mental state concepts ("theory of mind") emerge from a specialized neurocognitive mechanism that matures during the second year of life. But it also raises new puzzles concerning the FB task--puzzles that have intriguing parallels in results from infants' reasoning about solid bodies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	462-463
Number of pages	2
Journal	Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume	9
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2005.08.001
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2005

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Do infants really understand false belief? Response to Leslie

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