Pretense and representation: The origins of "theory of mind."
@article{Leslie1987PretenseAR, title={Pretense and representation: The origins of "theory of mind."}, author={Alan M. Leslie}, journal={Psychological Review}, year={1987}, volume={94}, pages={412-426} }
One of the major developments of the second year of human life is the emergence of the ability to pretend. A child's knowledge of a real situation is apparently contradicted and distorted by pretense. If, as generally assumed, the child is just beginning to construct a system for internally representing such knowledge, why is this system of representation not undermined by its use in both comprehending and producing pretense? In this article I present a theoretical analysis of the…
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