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This project explores the development of theory of mind in great apes and human infants, focusing on their ability to understand others' mental states. Through innovative eye-tracking methods, it aims to shed light on cognitive development and social understanding.
Theory of mind (ToM) is the ability to impute unobservable mental states, such as desires and beliefs, to others.
Our inferences about what others are thinking allow us to deceive and to empathize, to cooperate and to teach.
For four decades, researchers have been attempting to elucidate the evolutionary and ontogenetic origins of this critical cognitive ability.
In conflict with a long-held consensus, some have begun to argue that human infants (and to some extent great apes) share with human a…
THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
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