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Cognitive architecture of belief reasoning in children and adults : a two-systems account primer
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Low, Jason, Apperly, Ian A., Rakoczy, Hannes and Butterfill, Stephen A. (2016) Cognitive architecture of belief reasoning in children and adults : a two-systems account primer. Child Development Perspectives, 10 (3). pp. 184-189. ISSN 1750-8592.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12183
Abstract
Characterizing the cognitive architecture of human mindreading forces us to address two puzzles in people’s attributions of belief: why children show inconsistent expectations about others’ belief-based actions, and why adults’ belief reasoning is sometimes automatic and sometimes not. The seemingly puzzling data suggest humans have multiple mindreading systems that use different models of the mental. The efficient system is shared by infants, children and adults, and uses a minimal model of mind, which enables belief-like states to be tracked. The flexible system is late-developing and uses a canonical model, which incorporates propositional attitudes. A given model’s operation has signature limits that produce performance contrasts, in children as well as adults, between certain types of mindreading tasks.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Reasoning in infants, Reasoning in children , Change (Psychology), Decision making | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Child Development Perspectives | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1750-8592 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | September 2016 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 10 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 184-189 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 May 2016 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 May 2017 |
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