How do Infants Recognize and Understand others' Mental States: Recent Accounts and A Debate
Keywords: ToM, one-system, two-system
Abstract: There has been a lot of discussion about the nature mechanism of infants' recognizing and understanding of other agents' mental states, among which two-system account and one-system account are the most and longest debated. A variety of psychological and neuroscientific experiments have been done to provide evidence for theorists' respective theories. This essay will review these accounts and the debate, also including my personal opinions, leading to a more comprehensive understanding and a clearer future direction for research of ToM in my wish.
Submission Number: 151
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