Children's application of theory of mind in reasoning and language

Journal of Logic, Language and Information

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 417-442

  Flobbe, Liesbeth ^a   Verbrugge, Rineke ^a   Hendriks, Petra ^a   Krämer, Irene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

False belief; Second order reasoning; Sentence comprehension; Strategic game; Theory of Mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849111731     PISSN: 09258531     EISSN: 15729583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10849-008-9064-7     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Binmore K. (1992) Fun and games: A text on game theory. D.C. Heath and Company, Lexington, MA
2. Blutner R. (2000) Some aspects of optimality in natural language interpretation. Journal of Semantics 17: 189-216
3. Colman A.M. (2003) Depth of strategic reasoning in games. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7: 2-4
4. De Hoop H., Krämer I. (2005) Children's optimal interpretations of indefinite subjects and objects. Language Acquisition 13: 103-123
5. Dekker P., Van Rooij R. (2000) Bi-directional optimality theory: An application of game theory. Journal of Semantics 17: 217-242
6. DeVilliers J. (2007) The interface of language and Theory of Mind. Lingua 117: 1858-1878
7. Flobbe, L. (2006). Children's development of reasoning about other people's minds. M.Sc. Thesis Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen.
8. Grice H.P. (1975) Logic and conversation. In: Cole P., Morgan J.L.(eds) Syntax and semantics, vol. III, speech acts. Academic Press, New York, pp 41-58
9. Hedden T., Zhang J. (2002) What do you think I think you think? Strategic reasoning in matrix games. Cognition 85: 1-36
10. Hendriks P., Spenader J. (2005/2006) When production precedes comprehension: An optimization approach to the acquisition of pronouns. Language Acquisition 13(4): 319-348
11. Hogrefe G., Wimmer H. (1986) Ignorance versus false belief: A developmental lag in attribution of epistemic states. Child Development 57: 567
12. Karmiloff-Smith A. (1992) Beyond modularity: A developmental perspective on cognitive science. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
13. Keysar B., Lin S., Barr D. (2003) Limits on theory of mind use in adults. Cognition 89: 25-41
14. McKelvey R.D., Palfrey T.R. (1992) An experimental study of the centipede game. Econometrica 60: 803-836
15. Mol, L., Verbrugge, R., & Hendriks, P. (2005). Learning to reason about other people's minds. In L. Hall, D. Heylen, et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Virtual Social Agents (pp. 191-198). The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), Hatfield.
16. Nash J. (1951) Non-cooperative games. The Annals of Mathematics 54: 286-295
17. Onishi K., Baillargeon R. (2005) Do 15-month-old infants understand false beliefs?. Science 308: 255-257
18. Osborne M. (2003) An introduction to game theory. Oxford University Press, Oxford
19. Papafragou A., Tantalou N. (2004) Children's computation of implicatures. Language Acquisition 12: 71-82
20. Perner J. (1979) Young children's preoccupation with their own payoffs in strategic analysis of 2x2 games. Developmental Psychology 15: 204-213
21. Perner J., Ruffman T. (2005) Infants insight into the mind: How deep?. Science 308: 214-216
22. Perner J., Wimmer H. (1985) "John thinks that Mary thinks that. ": Attribution of second-order beliefs by 5- to 10-year-old children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 39: 437-471
23. Premack D., woodruff G. (1978) Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4: 515-526
24. Steerneman, P., Meesters, C., & Muris, P. (2003). TOM-test (derde druk). Antwerpen: Garant.
25. Tager-Flusberg H., Sullivan K. (1994) A second look at second-order belief attribution in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 24: 577-586
26. Termeer, M. (2002). "Een meisje ging twee keer van de glijbaan." A study of indefinite subject NPs in child language. MA Thesis, Utrecht University.
27. Vrieling, P. (2006). Een ezel stoot zich geen twee keer aan dezelfde steen: Dutch children's interpretation of indefinite subject NPs. MA Thesis, Utrecht University.
28. Verbrugge, R., & Mol, L. (2008). Learning to apply theory of mind? Journal of Logic, Language and Information (this issue). doi: 10.1007/s10849-008-9067-4.
29. Wimmer H., Perner J. (1983) Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception. Cognition 13: 103-128