Conclusion: Two Puzzles

Lecturer: Stephen A. Butterfill

Any attempt to understand the emergence of mindreading in ontogeny needs to solve two puzzles. First, How do observations about tracking support conclusions about representing? Second, Why are there dissociations in nonhuman apes’, human infants’ and human adults’ performance on belief-tracking tasks?

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Notes

Two questions:

1. How do observations about tracking support conclusions about models?
2. Why are there dissociations in nonhuman apes’, human infants’ and human adults’ performance on belief-tracking tasks?

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