UNDERSTANDING OTHER MINDS Perspectives from Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Second Edition Edited by SIMON BARON-COHEN Lecturer in Psychopathology, University of Cambridge HELEN TAGER-FLUSBERG Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts and DONALD J. COHEN Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, Director, Child Study Center, Yale University OXPORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Contents List of contributors xvii Part 1: Theory of mind in normal development and autism 1. Theory of mind and autism: a fifteen year review 3 Simon Baron-Cohen 2. Developing understandings of mind 21 Henry M. Wellman and Kristin H. Lagattuta 3. Early theories of mind: what the theory theory can tell us about autism 50 Alison Gopnik, Lisa Capps, and Andrew N. Meltzoff 4. Autism: deficits in folk psychology exist alongside superiority in folk physics 73 Simon Baron-Cohen 5. Language and theory of mind: what are the developmental relationships? 83 Jill de Villiers 6. Language and understanding minds: connections in autism 124 Helen Tager-Flusberg 7. Theory of mind and executive function: is there a developmental relationship? 150 Josef Ferner and Birgit Lang 8. Pretending, imagery and self-awareness in autism 182 Paul L. Harris and Hilary J. Leevers 9. Parts and wholes, meaning and minds: central coherence and its relation to theory of mind 203 Francesca Happé 10. Aspects of autism that theory of mind cannot explain 222 Kate C Plaisted Part 2: Theory of mind: neurobiological aspects 11. The role of the frontal lobes and the amygdala in theory of mind 253 Valerie E. Stone 12. How can studies of the monkey brain help us to understand 'theory of mind' and autism in humans? 274 Nathan J. Emery and David I. Perrett xvi Contents 13. Cerebral lateralization and theory of mind 306 Hiram Browne!!, Richard Griffin, Ellen Winner, Ori Friedman and Francesca Happé 14. The physiological basis of theory of mind: functional neuroimaging studies 334 Chris Frith and Uta Frith 15. Theory of mind in action: developmental perspectives on social neuroscience 357 Ami Klin, Robert Schultz, and Donald J. Cohen Part 3: Theory of mind: clinical aspects 16. Theory of mind in other clinical conditions: is a selective 'theory of mind' deficit exclusive to autism? 391 Rhiannon Corcoran 17. Theory of mind and the early diagnosis of autism 422 Tony Charman 18. Teaching theory of mind to individuals with autism 442 John Swettenham Part 4: Theory of mind: anthropological and evolutionary issues 19. Do chimpanzees use their gestures to instruct each other? 459 Daniel 1 Povinelli, and Daniela Κ O'Neill 20. Palaeoanthropological perspectives on the theory of mind 488 Steven Mithen 21. Culture and understanding other minds 503 Penelope G. Vinden, and Janet Wilde Asting ton Index 521.