Mental Files in Perspective
theory, development, and neural foundations
$166.81
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2025
Summary
Mental Files: A Window into Perspective and Cognition
Intellectual development is often viewed as domain-specific, with children developing distinct understandings of physics, psychology (theory of mind), and biology. However, the ability to understand perspective is a broad, overarching phenomenon that spans these domains in both development and brain function. This has profound theoretical implications.
For example, our folk psychology cannot be a single, monolithic “theor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198843184 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198843186 |
| Series: | Context & Content |
| Author: | Josef Perner |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Josef Perner
JOSEF PERNER received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Toronto. He was Professor in Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, and is now Professor of Psychology and member of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg. He authored over 200 articles on cognitive development, consciousness, simulation in decision making, mental representation, and cognitive neuroscience. He served as President of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, is a Fellow of the British Academy, Academia Europaea, Leopoldina, and Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel.
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