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Direct linkFairchild, Sarah; Papafragou, Anna – Cognitive Science, 2021
In sentences such as "Some dogs are mammals," the literal semantic meaning ("Some 'and possibly all' dogs are mammals") conflicts with the pragmatic meaning ("'Not all' dogs are mammals," known as a "scalar implicature"). Prior work has shown that adults vary widely in the extent to which they adopt the…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Theory of Mind, Semantics, Pragmatics
Dungan, James; Saxe, Rebecca – Cognitive Science, 2012
Language has been shown to play a key role in the development of a child's theory of mind, but its role in adult belief reasoning remains unclear. One recent study used verbal and nonverbal interference during a false-belief task to show that accurate belief reasoning in adults necessarily requires language (Newton & de Villiers, 2007). The…
Descriptors: Adults, Theory of Mind, Interference (Learning), Verbal Communication
