Enactive and Behavioral Abstraction Accounts of Social Understanding in Chimpanzees, Infants, and Adults

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Review of Philosophy and Psychology 3 (1):145-169 (2012)
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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.

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