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Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from developmental social neuroscience

Simon Baron‐Cohen, Helen Tager‐Flusberg, Michael Lombardo

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SECTION 1: THEORY OF MIND: DEVELOPMENT/COGNITIVE 1. Early manifestations of mind reading 2. Learning about the Mind from Evidence: Children's development of intuitive theories of perception and personality 3. Theory of Mind, Development, and Deafness 4. Teleology: Belief as perspective 5. Can Theory of Mind Grow Up?: Mindreading in adults, and its implications for the development and neuroscience of mindreading 7. Autism: Self and others 8. Mind attribution is for morality 9. Issues in the Measurement of Judgmental Accuracy SECTION 2: THEORY OF MIND: NEUROSCIENCE 10. EEG/ERP Studies of Theory of Mind 11. Functional Neuroimaging of Theory of Mind 12. Theory of Mind: Insights from patients with acquired brain damage 13. Understanding Emotional and Cognitive Empathy: A neuropsychological perspective 14. Neural Sources of Empathy: An evolving story SECTION 3: THEORY OF MIND: NEURAL MECHANISMS 15. Mirror Neuron System and Social Cognition 16. The Mirror Mechanism: Understanding others from the inside 17. Social Neuropeptides in the Human Brain: Oxytocin and social behaviour 18. Prenatal and Postnatal Testosterone Effects on Human Social and Emotional Behavior 19. Understanding the Genetics of Empathy and the Autistic Spectrum SECTION 4: THEORY OF MIND: AUTISM/PSYCHOPATHOLOGY/NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS 20. Theory of Mind in Deaf Children: Illuminating the relative roles of language and executive functioning in the development of social cognition 21. Social Cognition in Individuals with Psychopathic Tendencies 22. Two Systems for Action Comprehension in Autism: Mirroring and mentalising 23. Autism: Self and others 24. A review of theory of Mind Interventions for children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Conditions SECTION 5: THEORY OF MIND: COMPARATIVE 25. Culture and the Evolution of Interconnected Minds 26. Mindreading by Simulation: The roles of imagination and mirroring 27. Mindreading the Self

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SECTION 1: THEORY OF MIND: DEVELOPMENT/COGNITIVE 1. Early manifestations of mind reading 2. Learning about the Mind from Evidence: Children's development of intuitive theories of perception and personality 3. Theory of Mind, Development, and Deafness 4. Teleology: Belief as perspective 5. Can Theory of Mind Grow Up?: Mindreading in adults, and its implications for the development and neuroscience of mindreading 7. Autism: Self and others 8. Mind attribution is for morality 9. Issues in the Measurement of Judgmental Accuracy SECTION 2: THEORY OF MIND: NEUROSCIENCE 10. EEG/ERP Studies of Theory of Mind 11. Functional Neuroimaging of Theory of Mind 12. Theory of Mind: Insights from patients with acquired brain damage 13. Understanding Emotional and Cognitive Empathy: A neuropsychological perspective 14. Neural Sources of Empathy: An evolving story SECTION 3: THEORY OF MIND: NEURAL MECHANISMS 15. Mirror Neuron System and Social Cognition 16. The Mirror Mechanism: Understanding others from the inside 17. Social Neuropeptides in the Human Brain: Oxytocin and social behaviour 18. Prenatal and Postnatal Testosterone Effects on Human Social and Emotional Behavior 19. Understanding the Genetics of Empathy and the Autistic Spectrum SECTION 4: THEORY OF MIND: AUTISM/PSYCHOPATHOLOGY/NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS 20. Theory of Mind in Deaf Children: Illuminating the relative roles of language and executive functioning in the development of social cognition 21. Social Cognition in Individuals with Psychopathic Tendencies 22. Two Systems for Action Comprehension in Autism: Mirroring and mentalising 23. Autism: Self and others 24. A review of theory of Mind Interventions for children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Conditions SECTION 5: THEORY OF MIND: COMPARATIVE 25. Culture and the Evolution of Interconnected Minds 26. Mindreading by Simulation: The roles of imagination and mirroring 27. Mindreading the Self

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SECTION 1: THEORY OF MIND: DEVELOPMENT/COGNITIVE 1. Early manifestations of mind reading 2. Learning about the Mind from Evidence: Children's development of intuitive theories of perception and personality 3. Theory of Mind, Development, and Deafness 4. Teleology: Belief as perspective 5. Can Theory of Mind Grow Up?: Mindreading in adults, and its implications for the development and neuroscience of mindreading 7. Autism: Self and others 8. Mind attribution is for morality 9. Issues in the Measurement of Judgmental Accuracy SECTION 2: THEORY OF MIND: NEUROSCIENCE 10. EEG/ERP Studies of Theory of Mind 11. Functional Neuroimaging of Theory of Mind 12. Theory of Mind: Insights from patients with acquired brain damage 13. Understanding Emotional and Cognitive Empathy: A neuropsychological perspective 14. Neural Sources of Empathy: An evolving story SECTION 3: THEORY OF MIND: NEURAL MECHANISMS 15. Mirror Neuron System and Social Cognition 16. The Mirror Mechanism: Understanding others from the inside 17. Social Neuropeptides in the Human Brain: Oxytocin and social behaviour 18. Prenatal and Postnatal Testosterone Effects on Human Social and Emotional Behavior 19. Understanding the Genetics of Empathy and the Autistic Spectrum SECTION 4: THEORY OF MIND: AUTISM/PSYCHOPATHOLOGY/NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS 20. Theory of Mind in Deaf Children: Illuminating the relative roles of language and executive functioning in the development of social cognition 21. Social Cognition in Individuals with Psychopathic Tendencies 22. Two Systems for Action Comprehension in Autism: Mirroring and mentalising 23. Autism: Self and others 24. A review of theory of Mind Interventions for children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Conditions SECTION 5: THEORY OF MIND: COMPARATIVE 25. Culture and the Evolution of Interconnected Minds 26. Mindreading by Simulation: The roles of imagination and mirroring 27. Mindreading the Self

Key concepts: Theory of mind, Psychology, Social cognition, Empathy, Autism, Simulation theory of empathy, Mirror neuron, Mind-blindness

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