Cognition
Exploring the evolutionary roots of theory of mind: Primate errors on false belief tasks reveal representational limits.
Amanda Royka, Daniel J Horschler, Walker Bargmann, Laurie R Santos
Published: 202510.1016/j.cognition.2025.106400
Abstract
Human adults flexibly reason about others' unobservable mental states, a capacity known as Theory of Mind (ToM). Unfortunately, the roots of this capacity still remain poorly understood as both infants and nonhuman primates perform inconsistently on…
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