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- Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception (1983) (5471)
- Understanding the Representational Mind (1993) (2331)
- Three-year-olds' difficulty with false belief: The case for a conceptual deficit (1987) (1412)
- “John thinks that Mary thinks that…” attribution of second-order beliefs by 5- to 10-year-old children ☆ (1985) (1270)
- Fractionating theory of mind: A meta-analysis of functional brain imaging studies (2014) (1137)
- Exploration of the autistic child's theory of mind: knowledge, belief, and communication. (1989) (733)
- Theory of mind is contagious - you catch it from your sibs (1994) (627)
- Implicit Understanding of Belief (1994) (623)
- A theory of implicit and explicit knowledge (1999) (609)
- Ignorance versus false belief: a developmental lag in attribution of epistemic states (1986) (593)
- Development of theory of mind and executive control (1999) (592)
- Infants' Insight into the Mind: How Deep? (2005) (430)
- Episodic memory and autonoetic consciousness: developmental evidence and a theory of childhood amnesia. (1995) (414)
- Children's Understanding of Informational Access as Source of Knowledge. (1988) (405)
- Does the autistic child have a metarepresentational deficit? (1991) (380)
- Older (but not younger) siblings facilitate false belief understanding. (1998) (372)
- Theory of mind and self-control: more than a common problem of inhibition. (2002) (340)
- Framing decisions: Hypothetical and real (2002) (298)
- Early Deception and the Child's Theory of Mind: False Trails and Genuine Markers (1991) (240)
- From infants’ to children's appreciation of belief (2012) (237)
- Training transfer between card sorting and false belief understanding: helping children apply conflicting descriptions. (2003) (230)
- Do visual perspective tasks need theory of mind? (2006) (225)
- How Parenting Style Affects False Belief Understanding (2001) (225)
- Pleased and surprised: Children's cognitive theory of emotion (1991) (212)
- Thinking of mental and other representations: The roles of left and right temporo-parietal junction (2006) (210)
- Temporo-parietal Junction Activity in Theory-of-Mind Tasks: Falseness, Beliefs, or Attention (2009) (182)
- Do infants really understand false belief? Response to Leslie (2005) (166)
- Metalinguistic awareness and theory of mind: Just two words for the same thing? (1998) (165)
- What causes 3‐year‐olds' difficulty on the dimensional change card sorting task? (2002) (161)
- Theory of mind finds its Piagetian perspective: why alternative naming comes with understanding belief (2002) (155)
- Theory of mind and executive function: Is there a developmental relationship? (2000) (154)
- Implicit and explicit theory of mind: state of the art. (2012) (149)
- Common brain areas engaged in false belief reasoning and visual perspective taking: a meta-analysis of functional brain imaging studies (2013) (142)
- Disentangling dimensions in the dimensional change card-sorting task. (2005) (138)
- Reflecting on scientific thinking: children's understanding of the hypothesis-evidence relation. (1993) (132)
- Executive control and higher‐order theory of mind in children at risk of ADHD (2002) (131)
- Young children's conception of lying: Lexical realism—Moral subjectivism (1984) (126)
- The Curious Incident of the Photo that was Accused of Being False: Issues of Domain Specificity in Development, Autism, and Brain Imaging (2008) (123)
- Want that is understood well before say that, think that, and false belief: a test of de Villiers's linguistic determinism on German-speaking children. (2003) (114)
- Memory and theory of mind (2000) (109)
- Specifying the brain anatomy underlying temporo‐parietal junction activations for theory of mind: A review using probabilistic atlases from different imaging modalities (2017) (108)
- Intentionality and knowledge in children's judgments of actor's responsibility and recipient's emotional reaction. (1988) (108)
- Counterfactual reasoning: From childhood to adulthood (2013) (101)
- Episodic memory development: theory of mind is part of re‐experiencing experienced events (2007) (100)
- Counterfactual reasoning: developing a sense of "nearest possible world". (2010) (95)
- The foundations of metacognition (2012) (93)
- The many faces of belief: reflections on Fodor's and the child's theory of mind (1995) (93)
- Knowledge for hunger: Children's problem with representation in imputing mental states (1988) (91)
- Executive control without conscious awareness: the cold control theory of hypnosis (2007) (90)
- Language and thought: The meta-intentional nature of executive functions and theory of mind (1998) (89)
- Clarifying the role of theory of mind areas during visual perspective taking: Issues of spontaneity and domain-specificity (2015) (87)
- Counterfactual conditionals and false belief: a developmental dissociation (2004) (83)
- Understanding the mind as an active information processor: Do young children have a “copy theory of mind”? (1991) (79)
- Actions really do speak louder than words—but only implicitly: Young children's understanding of false belief in action (2001) (78)
- ‘He Thinks He Knows’: And More Developmental Evidence Against the Simulation (Role Taking) Theory (1992) (72)
- Understanding of intention and false belief and the development of self-control (2002) (72)
- Identity: Key to Children’s Understanding of Belief (2011) (69)
- Do infants understand false beliefs? We don’t know yet – A commentary on Baillargeon, Buttelmann and Southgate’s commentary (2018) (66)
- An evaluation of neurocognitive models of theory of mind (2015) (66)
- Children's changing understanding of wicked desires: From objective to subjective and moral (1996) (65)
- Escape from metaignorance: how children develop an understanding of their own lack of knowledge. (2012) (62)
- Executive functions and theory of mind: Cognitive complexity or functional dependence? (1999) (62)
- What is a Perspective Problem? Developmental Issues in Belief Ascription and Dual Identity (2003) (61)
- Theories of theories of mind: Simulation as explicitation of predication-implicit knowledge about the mind: arguments for a simulation-theory mix (1996) (57)
- Training Theory of Mind and Executive Control: A Tool for Improving School Achievement? (2008) (56)
- Higher-order beliefs and intentions in children's understanding of social interaction. (1988) (55)
- The role of competition and knowledge in the Ellsberg task (2003) (55)
- Implicit knowledge in people and connectionist networks (1996) (53)
- Young children's conception of lying: Moral intuition and the denotation and connotation of "to lie." (1985) (52)
- Theory of mind, language and the temporoparietal junction mystery (2008) (52)
- The Disjunction Effect: Does It Exist for Two-Step Gambles? (2001) (52)
- Objects of desire, thought, and reality: Problems of anchoring discourse referents in development (2007) (52)
- Perspective taking and cognitive flexibility in the Dimensional Change Card Sorting (DCCS) task (2010) (51)
- The child's understanding of commitment. (1988) (50)
- False signs and the non-specificity of theory of mind: Evidence that preschoolers have general difficulties in understanding representations (2008) (49)
- Psychology. Infants' insight into the mind: how deep? (2005) (49)
- Belief and quantity: three-year olds' adaptation to listener's knowledge (1986) (48)
- About + belief + counterfactual (2000) (47)
- MiniMeta: in search of minimal criteria for metacognition (2012) (46)
- When the alternative would have been better: Counterfactual reasoning and the emergence of regret (2012) (45)
- Higher order thinking (1999) (45)
- A theory of the implicit nature of implicit learning (2002) (44)
- Helping as an early indicator of a theory of mind: Mentalism or Teleology? (2017) (43)
- Assumptions of a subjective measure of consciousness: Three mappings (2004) (42)
- What Does "That" Have to Do with Point of View? Conflicting Desires and "Want" in German (2005) (41)
- of Conditional Reasoning (2011) (41)
- Sorting between dimensions: conditions of cognitive flexibility in preschoolers. (2008) (37)
- The robustness and generalizability of findings on spontaneous false belief sensitivity: a replication attempt (2018) (37)
- Is reasoning from counterfactual antecedents evidence for counterfactual reasoning? (2010) (37)
- Grasping the Concept of Representation: Its Impact on 4-Year-Olds’ Theory of Mind and Beyond (1992) (36)
- Counterfactual Reasoning: Sharpening Conceptual Distinctions in Developmental Studies (2014) (35)
- Developmental aspects of consciousness: How much theory of mind do you need to be consciously aware? (2003) (35)
- Is hypnotic responding the strategic relinquishment of metacognition (2012) (35)
- Mental files and belief: A cognitive theory of how children represent belief and its intensionality (2015) (34)
- Misinformation and unexpected change: Testing the development of epistemic-state attribution (1988) (33)
- Processing counterfactual and hypothetical conditionals: An fMRI investigation (2013) (33)
- Unifying consciousness with explicit knowledge (2003) (33)
- Choice or No Choice: Is the Langer Effect Evidence Against Simulation? (1995) (32)
- Developmental differences in encoding length series. (1983) (32)
- Competition as rational action: Why young children cannot appreciate competitive games (2013) (31)
- Retro- and prospection for mental time travel: Emergence of episodic remembering and mental rotation in 5- to 8-year old children☆ (2010) (30)
- Dissociating size representation for action and for conscious judgment: Grasping visual illusions without apparent obstacles (2006) (30)
- Teleology and causal understanding in children's theory of mind (2010) (29)
- Mental simulation: Royal road to other minds? (2005) (27)
- Division of labour within the visual system: fact or fiction? Which kind of evidence is appropriate to clarify this debate? (2010) (27)
- Getting a grip on illusions: replicating Stöttinger et al [Exp Brain Res (2010) 202:79–88] results with 3-D objects (2011) (25)
- Opacity and Discourse Referents: Object Identity and Object Properties (2007) (24)
- The Metacognitive Implications of the Implicit-Explicit Distinction (2002) (24)
- Experiential Awareness and Children’s Episodic Memory (1990) (24)
- Teleology: Belief as perspective (2013) (23)
- Systematic Comparison of Brain Imaging Meta-Analyses of ToM with vPT (2017) (23)
- Direct and indirect admission of ignorance by children. (2017) (23)
- From an implicit to an explicit "theory of mind" (2000) (22)
- Mental Files in Development: Dual Naming, False Belief, Identity and Intensionality (2016) (22)
- Mental representation of length and weight series and transitive inferences in young children. (1981) (22)
- Development of intelligence and thinking (1999) (22)
- Introspection and remembering (2007) (20)
- Do Children with ADHD Not Need Their Frontal Lobes for Theory of Mind? A Review of Brain Imaging and Neuropsychological Studies (2003) (20)
- Is “thinking” belief? Reply to Wellman and Bartsch (1989) (20)
- Predicting others through simulation or by theory? A method to decide (1999) (20)
- Counterfactual and Other Forms of Conditional Reasoning: Children Lost in the Nearest Possible World (2011) (19)
- Basic Conditional Reasoning: How Children Mimic Counterfactual Reasoning (2014) (19)
- Evolution of human cooperation in Homo heidelbergensis: Teleology versus mentalism (2015) (19)
- Object-Based Set-Shifting in Preschoolers: Relations to Theory of Mind (2010) (19)
- Left inferior-parietal lobe activity in perspective tasks: identity statements (2015) (18)
- Cognitive Autonomy of the Development of Moral Evaluation of Achievement. (1982) (18)
- Discrepant Results in Experimental Studies of Young Children's Understanding of Probability. (1979) (18)
- Grasping the diagonal: Controlling attention to illusory stimuli for action and perception (2009) (18)
- God-mother-baby: what children think they know. (2014) (18)
- Ignorance or False Negatives: Do Children of 4 to 5 Years Simulate Belief With "Not Knowing = Getting it Wrong?" (2003) (18)
- Children's competency in understanding the role of a witness: truth, lies, and moral ties (1997) (17)
- Application of implicit knowledge: deterministic or probabilistic? (1997) (17)
- Introspection & remembering (2007) (17)
- Further Evidence for Nonspecificity of Theory of Mind in Preschoolers: Training and Transferability in the Understanding of False Beliefs and False Signs (2011) (16)
- Conditions for Mutuality (1988) (16)
- RUM, PUM, and the perspectival relativity of sortals (2000) (15)
- When knowledge is unconscious because of conscious knowledge and vice versa (2001) (15)
- Exceptions to Mutual Trust: Children's Use of Second-Order Beliefs in Responsibility Attribution (1987) (15)
- Does manifestness solve problems of mutuality? (1990) (15)
- Misrepresentation and Referential Confusion: Children's Difficulty with False Beliefs and Outdated Photographs (1998) (14)
- Young Children's Preoccupation with Their Own Payoffs in Strategic Analysis of 2 X 2 Games. (1979) (14)
- File Change Semantics for preschoolers: Alternative naming and belief understanding (2005) (14)
- Belief and Counterfactuality (2018) (14)
- The Necessity and Impossibility of Simulation (1994) (14)
- Mental files: Developmental integration of dual naming and theory of mind (2020) (13)
- Young Children's Understand1ng of Belief and Communicative Intention (1987) (13)
- The practical other: teleology and its development (2018) (12)
- Feedback‐dependent encoding of length series (1985) (12)
- 'What does 'that' have to do with point of view? The case of conflicting desires and 'want' in German.' (2005) (12)
- Pro-social cognition: helping, practical reasons, and ‘theory of mind’ (2015) (11)
- Dissociable definitions of consciousness (1994) (11)
- Theory of Mind (2019) (11)
- Young Children's Recognition and Use of the Vertical and Horizontal in Drawings. (1984) (11)
- Mental files theory of mind: When do children consider agents acquainted with different object identities? (2017) (11)
- Do infants understand that external goals are internally represented? (2005) (10)
- What fMRI can tell us about the ToM-EF connection (2005) (10)
- Opacity and embedded perspectives: object identity and object properties (2007) (9)
- Commentary on Ted Ruffman’s “Belief or not belief: …” (2014) (8)
- What sort of representation is conscious (2002) (8)
- Experiments with cooperative 2 × 2 games (1977) (8)
- Testing Nash’s Solution of the Cooperative Game (1974) (7)
- Extended difficulties with counterfactuals persist in reasoning with false beliefs: Evidence for teleology-in-perspective. (2020) (7)
- Pro-social cognition: helping, practical reasons, and ‘theory of mind’ (2015) (7)
- Reduced spontaneous perspective taking in schizophrenia (2019) (7)
- Great apes are sensitive to prior reliability of an informant in a gaze following task (2017) (7)
- Putting Philosophy to Work by Making Simulation Theory Testable: The Case of Endowment (2003) (6)
- Deconstructing RTK: How to explicate a theory of implicit knowledge (1999) (6)
- On the nature, evolution, development, and epistemology of metacognition: introductory thoughts (2012) (6)
- Mistaken Max befriends Duplo girl: No difference between a standard and an acted-out false belief task (2019) (5)
- Framing and the theory-simulation controversy. Predicting people's decisions (2002) (5)
- WBI Studies Repository WBI Studies Repository Social Knowledge Social Knowledge (2017) (5)
- Simulation à la Goldman: pretend and collapse (2009) (5)
- The roles of left and right temporoparietal junctions (2009) (4)
- The role of the IPL in person identification (2019) (4)
- Implicit Versus Explicit Representation and Intra‐ Versus Inter‐Modular Processing (2002) (4)
- Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults (2021) (4)
- Consistency in exchange for inappropriately matched visual feedback? A comment on Franz and Gegenfurtner (2008) “Grasping visual illusions: Consistent data and no dissociation” (2009) (4)
- Remember judgments and the constraint of direct experience (2009) (4)
- Why Do Children Who Solve False Belief Tasks Begin to Find True Belief Control Tasks Difficult? A Test of Pragmatic Performance Factors in Theory of Mind Tasks (2022) (3)
- Children's understanding of belief and disconfirming visual evidence (1997) (3)
- The knowledge (“true belief”) error in 4- to 6-year-old children: When are agents aware of what they have in view? (2022) (2)
- Measuring visual perspective taking in the brain with avatars and arrows: Which question are we asking? (2018) (2)
- Revealing Human Nature Through Early Competition (2017) (2)
- A plea for the second functionalist model and the insufficiency of simulation (1993) (2)
- Room for concept development? (1998) (2)
- Avatars and arrows in the brain: Which question are we asking? (2018) (2)
- Development of episodic memory and theory of mind (2000) (1)
- EXCHANGE OF DATA TO IMPROVE DAIRY CATTLE HEALTH: FARMERS’ AND VETERINARIANS’ NEEDS (2016) (1)
- File Change Semantics for Preschoolers (2007) (1)
- Objective Desirability: Bad Outcomes, Conflicting Desires and Children's Concept of Competition. (1991) (1)
- How to Assess Metacognition in Infants and Animals (2013) (1)
- Internationality and Knowledge in Children's Judgments of Actor's Responsibility and Recipient's Emotional Reaction. (1988) (0)
- Conventions of relevance: “Look, but don't touch with dirty hands!” A rejoinder to Siegal and Sanderson (1989) (0)
- Mental Files and Teleology (2021) (0)
- Thanks to our guest reviewers (1992) (0)
- Review: Simulation à la Goldman: Pretend and Collapse (2009) (0)
- Replication attempt of Southgate et al. (2007) (2015) (0)
- Learning exceptions to ecologically valid rules (1984) (0)
- OCk, athryn, 163 Byrne, Ruth MJ, 61 Cosmides, Leda, 187 Garnham, Alan, 45, 117 (1989) (0)
- Datasets on counterfactual reasoning and false belief attribution over the lifespan (Experiment 2) (2018) (0)
- Development of understanding the mind and mental control (2008) (0)
- Simulation à la Goldman: Pretend and collapse. (Commentary on the Precis of Alvin Goldman's 'Simulating Minds.') (2009) (0)
- Kognitionspsychologie : e. Einf. (1979) (0)
- Ice-cream Story Task (2018) (0)
- Mental Files in Development: Dual Naming, False Belief, Identity and Intensionality (2015) (0)
- Thanks to our guest reviewers (1991) (0)
- Teleology first: Goals before knowledge and belief (2021) (0)
- What if? Counterfactual reasoning, pretense, and the role of possible worlds (2013) (0)
- Getting a grip on illusions: replicating Stöttinger et al [Exp Brain Res (2010) 202:79–88] results with 3-D objects (2011) (0)
- The relation between 'Theory of Mind' and 'Executive Control' (2001) (0)
- Thanks to our guest reviewers (1990) (0)
- Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013, Berlin, Germany, July 31 - August 3, 2013 (2013) (0)
- What’s in a Hub?—Representing Identity in Language and Mathematics (2020) (0)
- Forum: Science & Society 489 Brain network: social media and the cognitive scientist (2012) (0)
- Basic Conditional Reasoning: How Children Mimic Counterfactual Reasoning (2013) (0)
- COMPUTER MODELING AND THE FATE OF FOLK PSYCHOLOGY (2002) (0)
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