S. Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg, and D. Cohen. Understanding other minds: perspectives from Autism. Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford, 1993.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....in collaborative or competitive activity, agent tracking is essential to their interaction. It would be more efficient to provide architectural support for such a capability. Second, recent research in the fields of cognitive and developmental psychology has focused on the theory of mind hypothesis[4]. This hypothesis suggests that an innate (neurocognitive) capability has evolved to enable humans to ascribe mental states to others[3] This research appears to indicate that automated intelligent agents would be well served by an architectural capability to reason about other agents mental ....

....as in the work presented in this article, is a key area for future research. A third area of related work, also mentioned in Section 1, is research in developmental and cognitive psychology focused on the human ability to ascribe mental states to people: beliefs, desires, and intentions[4]. Baron Cohen argues that specific neurocognitive mechanisms have evolved to facilitate such mental state ascription, to aid in social understanding, behavioral prediction, social interaction and communication[3] Selective impairment of these capabilities leads to autism[4] Such autistic ....

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S. Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg, and D. Cohen. Understanding other minds: perspectives from Autism. Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford, 1993.

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