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Seeing is not (necessarily) believing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Virginia Slaughter  and
Linda Mealey
Virginia Slaughter
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia 4072 vps@psy.uq.edu.aulmealey@psy.uq.edu.ac
Linda Mealey
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia 4072 vps@psy.uq.edu.aulmealey@psy.uq.edu.ac
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Abstract

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We doubt that theory of mind can be sufficiently demonstrated without reliance on verbal tests. Where language is the major tool of social manipulation, an effective theory of mind must use language as an input. We suspect, therefore, that in this context, prelinguistic human and nonhuman minds are more alike than are human pre- and postlinguistic minds.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 130
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press