Search Results - "German, Tim P"

Two reasons to abandon the false belief task as a test of theory of mind by Bloom, Paul, German, Tim P

“…The false belief task has often been used as a test of theory of mind. We present two reasons to abandon this practice. First, passing the false belief task…”
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Core mechanisms in ‘theory of mind’ by Leslie, Alan M., Friedman, Ori, German, Tim P.

“…Our ability to understand the thoughts and feelings of other people does not initially develop as a theory but as a mechanism. The ‘theory of mind’ mechanism…”
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Representational and executive selection resources in ‘theory of mind’: Evidence from compromised belief-desire reasoning in old age by German, Tim P., Hehman, Jessica A.

“…Effective belief-desire reasoning requires both specialized representational capacities—the capacity to represent the mental states as such—as well as…”
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Belief-desire reasoning as a process of selection by Leslie, Alan M., German, Tim P., Polizzi, Pamela

“…Human learning may depend upon domain specialized mechanisms. A plausible example is rapid, early learning about the thoughts and feelings of other people. A…”
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Functional Fixedness in a Technologically Sparse Culture by German, Tim P., Barrett, H. Clark

“…Problem solving can be inefficient when the solution requires subjects to generate an atypical function for an object and the object's typical function has…”
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Competence and performance in belief-desire reasoning across two cultures: The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about false belief? by Yazdi, Amir Amin, German, Tim P., Defeyter, Margaret Anne, Siegal, Michael

“…There is a change in false belief task performance across the 3–5 year age range, as confirmed in a recent meta-analysis [Wellman, H. M., Cross, D., & Watson,…”
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Children's counterfactual inferences about long and short causal chains by German, Tim P., Nichols, Shaun

“…Recent findings on counterfactual reasoning in children have led to the claim that children's developing capacities in the domain of ‘theory of mind’ might…”
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Neural correlates of detecting pretense: automatic engagement of the intentional stance under covert conditions by German, Tim P, Niehaus, Jeffrey L, Roarty, Meghan P, Giesbrecht, Barry, Miller, Michael B

“…Typically developing children begin to produce and understand pretend play between 18 and 24 months of age, and early pretense has been argued to be a…”
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Immunity to functional fixedness in young children by German, T P, Defeyter, M A

“…In the candle problem (Duncker, 1945), subjects must attach a candle to a vertical surface, using only a box of tacks and a book of matches. Subjects exhibit…”
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Children's causal reasoning: Counterfactual thinking occurs for 'negative' outcomes only by German, Tim P.

“…Harris, German and Mills (Children’s use of counterfactual thinking in causal reasoning. Cognition, 61 (1996), 223–259), following Mackie, argue that children…”
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Acquiring an understanding of design: evidence from children's insight problem solving by Defeyter, Margaret Anne, German, Tim P

“…The human ability to make tools and use them to solve problems may not be zoologically unique, but it is certainly extraordinary. Yet little is known about the…”
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Conditions under Which Function Information Attenuates Name Extension via Shape by Truxaw, Danielle, Krasnow, Max M., Woods, Chantelle, German, Tim P.

“…Children often extend names to novel artifacts on the basis of overall shape rather than core properties (e.g., function). This bias is claimed to reflect the…”
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The role of information about "convention," "design," and "goal" in representing artificial kinds by German, Tim P., Truxaw, Danielle, Defeyter, Margaret Anne

“…Artifact knowledge requires integration of information from different areas of human commonsense knowledge—our everyday understanding of object mechanics and…”
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Children's inferences from 'knowing' to 'pretending' and 'believing' by German, Tim P., Leslie, Alan M.

“…Three studies investigatedchildren's ability to drawinferences fromtheproperties of one mental state to the properties of another. Inferences from…”
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Function and the Origins of the Design Stance by German, Tim P., Johnson, Susan C

“…We report 2 experiments addressing children's developing understanding of design. Experiment 1 showed that although 5-year-old children judged an object's…”
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Research Report: Functional Fixedness in a Technologically Sparse Culture by German, Tim P, Barrett, HClark

“…Problem solving can be inefficient when the solution requires subjects to generate an atypical function for an object and the object's typical function has…”
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Research Report: Conditions Under Which Function Information Attenuates Name Extension via Shape by Truxaw, Danielle, Krasnow, Max M, Woods, Chantelle, German, Tim P

“…Children often extend names to novel artifacts on the basis of overall shape rather than core properties (e.g., function). This bias is claimed to reflect the…”
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