A new wave of AI research is attempting to tackle one of psychology’s oldest questions: whether the human mind can be unified ...

Research by Cardiff University has found that playing with Barbie dolls can help reach key milestones in developing empathy ...

Playing with dolls helps in the development of social skills and the understanding of others in children, according to new ...

For four decades, a controversial idea has shaped how autism is understood by researchers, healthcare professionals and the public: the claim that autistic people are “mind blind”. The phrase suggests ...

For four decades, a controversial idea has shaped how autism is understood by researchers, health care professionals and the public: the claim that autistic people are "mind blind." The phrase ...

Travis LaCroix received funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada). For four decades, a controversial idea has shaped how autism is understood by researchers, healthcare ...

Below, Tom Griffiths shares five key insights from his new book, The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind. Griffiths is a professor of psychology and computer science at ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT show reasoning errors across many domains. Identifying vulnerabilities is good for public safety, industry, ...

A new theory suggests that gravity could possibly be the result of entropy. If true, this would mean that everything in the universe would fall apart if it all remained unchanged. This theory tries to ...

The hope and, in some cases, fear that intelligent machines will understand the mental states of their human counterparts, that is, have a theory of mind (ToM), has been with us since the advent of ...

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often show impairments in Theory of Mind (ToM). This pilot study examined whether a commercially available toy robot (Cozmo) could support false-belief ...

Abstract: Recent work has revealed that large language models (LLMs) can exhibit emergent theory-of-mind (ToM) capabilities—inferring human beliefs, desires, and intentions from text alone. Yet, ...