Enactive and behavioral abstraction accounts of social understanding in chimpanzees, infants, and adults
RIS ID
89075
Abstract
We argue against theory-of-mind interpretation of recent false-belief experiments with young infants and explore two other interpretations: enactive and behavioral abstraction approaches. We then discuss the differences between these alternatives.
Publication Details
Gallagher, S. and Povinelli, D. J. 2012, 'Enactive and behavioral abstraction accounts of social understanding in chimpanzees, infants, and adults', Review of Philosophy and Psychology, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 145-169.