Journal Club


Winter 2017

2017/01/13
  • Kruschke, J. K. (2011). Bayesian assessment of null values via parameter estimation and model comparison. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(3), 299-312.

Fall 2016

2016/10/13
  • Schimmack, U. (2012). The ironic effect of significant results on the credibility of multiple-study articles. Psychological Methods, 17(4), 551.
  • Schimmack, U. (2014). Quantifying Statistical Research Integrity: The Replicability Index.

2016/10/20
  • Meehl, P. E. (1990). Why summaries of research on psychological theories are often uninterpretable. Psychological Reports, 66(1), 195-219.

2016/11/03 (joint meeting w/Ansari Lab)
  • Dienes, Z. (2011). Bayesian versus orthodox statistics: Which side are you on?. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(3), 274-290.

2016/11/20
  • Meehl, P. E. (1990). Why summaries of research on psychological theories are often uninterpretable. Psychological Reports, 66(1), 219-244.


Winter 2016

2016/02/11
  • Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (1994). Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: Toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science. Cognition, 50(1), 41-77.

2016/02/25
  • Anderson, M. L. (2010). Neural reuse: A fundamental organizational principle of the brain. Behavioral and brain sciences, 33(04), 245-266.
  • Anderson, M. L., & Penner-Wilger, M. (2013). Neural reuse in the evolution and development of the brain: evidence for developmental homology?. Developmental psychobiology, 55(1), 42-51.

2016/03/03
  • Anderson, M. L., & Finlay, B. L. (2013). Allocating structure to function: the strong links between neuroplasticity and natural selection. Fron Hum Neurosci, 7, 918.
  • Anderson, M. L. (2015). Precis of after phrenology: neural reuse and the interactive brain. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-22.

2016/03/24
  • Machamer, P., Darden, L., & Craver, C. F. (2000). Thinking about mechanisms. Philosophy of science, 1-25.
  • Excerpts from Craver, C. F. (2007). Explaining the brain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2016/03/31
  • Craver, C. F. (2014). The Ontic Account of Scientific Explanation. In Explanation in the Special Sciences (pp. 27-52). Springer Netherlands.

2016/04/14
  • Low, J., & Watts, J. (2013). Attributing false beliefs about object identity reveals a signature blind spot in humans’ efficient mind-reading system. Psychological Science, 24(3), 305-311.
  • Butterfill, S. A., & Apperly, I. A. (2013). How to construct a minimal theory of mind. Mind & Language, 28(5), 606-637.
  • Apperly, I. A., & Butterfill, S. A. (2009). Do humans have two systems to track beliefs and belief-like states?. Psychological review, 116(4), 953.


Fall 2015

2015/09/24
  • Carlson, S. M., Moses, L. J., & Breton, C. (2002). How specific is the relation between executive function and theory of mind? Contributions of inhibitory control and working memory. Infant and Child Development, 11(2), 73-92.
  • German, T. P., & Hehman, J. A. (2006). Representational and executive selection resources in ‘theory of mind’: Evidence from compromised belief-desire reasoning in old age. Cognition, 101(1), 129-152.

2015/12/03
  • Schneider, D., Nott, Z. E., & Dux, P. E. (2014). Task instructions and implicit theory of mind. Cognition, 133(1), 43-47.
  • Schneider, D., Slaughter, V. P., & Dux, P. E. (2015). What do we know about implicit false-belief tracking?. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 22(1), 1-12.


Winter 2015

2015/01/21
  • Apperly, I. A., & Butterfill, S. A. (2009). Do humans have two systems to track beliefs and belief-like states?. Psychological review, 116(4), 953. (Danna)
  • Baillargeon, R., Scott, R. M., & He, Z. (2010). False-belief understanding in infants. Trends in cognitive sciences, 14(3), 110-118. (Micaela)

2015/01/28
  • Saxe, R., Carey, S., & Kanwisher, N. (2004). Understanding other minds: linking developmental psychology and functional neuroimaging. Annu. Rev. Psychol., 55, 87-124. (Maya)

2015/02/04
  • Gweon, H., Saxe, R. (2013). Developmental cognitive neuroscience of Theory of Mind. Neural Circuit Development and Function in the Brain: Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience. Elsevier. Ed: J. Rubenstein & P. Rakic (Laura)
  • Mills, K. L., Lalonde, F., Clasen, L. S., Giedd, J. N., & Blakemore, S. J. (2014). Developmental changes in the structure of the social brain in late childhood and adolescence. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 9(1), 123-131. (Danna)

2015/02/11
  • Leslie, A. M & Thaiss, L. (1992) Domain specificity in conceptual development: Neuropsychological evidence from autism. Cognition, 43, 225–251. (Ashley)
  • Stone, V. E., & Gerrans, P. (2006). What's domain-specific about theory of mind?. Social Neuroscience, 1(3-4), 309-319. (Ashley & Sahar)
  • Gerrans, P. (2002). The theory of mind module in evolutionary psychology. Biology and Philosophy, 17(3), 305-321. (Sahar)

2015/03/04
  • Baker, J. P. (2013). Autism at 70--redrawing the boundaries. The New England journal of medicine, 369(12), 1089. (Maya)
  • Rajendran, G., & Mitchell, P. (2007). Cognitive theories of autism. Developmental Review, 27(2), 224-260. (Maya and Sahar)
  • Baron-Cohen, S. (2004). The cognitive neuroscience of autism. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 75(7), 945-948. (Sahar)

2015/03/11
  • Baron-Cohen, S., & Belmonte, M. K. (2005). Autism: a window onto the development of the social and the analytic brain. Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 28, 109-126. (TBD)
  • Kennedy, D. P., & Adolphs, R. (2012). The social brain in psychiatric and neurological disorders. Trends in cognitive sciences, 16(11), 559-572. (Micaela)
  • Pelphrey, K. A., Shultz, S., Hudac, C. M., & Vander Wyk, B. C. (2011). Research review: constraining heterogeneity: the social brain and its development in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52(6), 631-644. (TBD)

2015/03/18
  • Amaral, D. G., Schumann, C. M., & Nordahl, C. W. (2008). Neuroanatomy of autism. Trends in neurosciences, 31(3), 137-145. (Laura)
  • Geschwind, D. H., & Levitt, P. (2007). Autism spectrum disorders: developmental disconnection syndromes. Current opinion in neurobiology, 17(1), 103-111. (Ashley)

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Fall 2014
2014/10/15
  • Driver IV, J., Davis, G., Ricciardelli, P., Kidd, P., Maxwell, E., & Baron-Cohen, S. (1999). Gaze perception triggers reflexive visuospatial orienting. Visual cognition, 6(5), 509-540. (Micaela)

2014/10/29
  • Senju, A., Tojo, Y., Dairoku, H., & Hasegawa, T. (2004). Reflexive orienting in response to eye gaze and an arrow in children with and without autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45(3), 445-458. (Sahar)
  • Brass, M., Schmitt, R. M., Spengler, S., & Gergely, G. (2007). Investigating action understanding: inferential processes versus action simulation. Current Biology, 17(24), 2117-2121. (Maya)

2014/11/12
  • Saxe, R., & Wexler, A. (2005). Making sense of another mind: the role of the right temporo-parietal junction. Neuropsychologia, 43(10), 1391-1399. (Danna)
  • Scott, R. M., & Baillargeon, R. (2009). Which penguin is this? Attributing false beliefs about object identity at 18 months. Child development, 80(4), 1172-1196. (Ashley)

Summer 2014
2014/06/16
  • Carter, R. M., & Huettel, S. A. (2013). A nexus model of the temporal–parietal junction. Trends in cognitive sciences, 17(7), 328-336. (AC)
  • Teufel, C., Fletcher, P. C., & Davis, G. (2010). Seeing other minds: attributed mental states influence perception. Trends in cognitive sciences, 14(8), 376-382. (Melody)

2014/06/25
  • Iao, L. S., & Leekam, S. R. (2014). Nonspecificity and theory of mind: New evidence from a nonverbal false-sign task and children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of experimental child psychology, 122, 1-20. (Melody)
  • Hobaiter, C., & Byrne, R. W. (2011). The gestural repertoire of the wild chimpanzee. Animal cognition, 14(5), 745-767.. (Sahar)

2014/06/30
  • Brass, M., Schmitt, R. M., Spengler, S., & Gergely, G. (2007). Investigating action understanding: inferential processes versus action simulation. Current Biology, 17(24), 2117-2121. (Melody)
  • Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2007). Integrating simulation and theory of mind: from self to social cognition. Trends in cognitive sciences, 11(5), 194-196. (Melody)
  • Van Overwalle, F., & Baetens, K. (2009). Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: a meta-analysis. Neuroimage, 48(3), 564-584. (Sahar)

2014/07/07
  • Gallese, V. (2007). Before and below ‘theory of mind’: embodied simulation and the neural correlates of social cognition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 362(1480), 659-669. (Melody)
  • Penn, D. C., & Povinelli, D. J. (2007). On the lack of evidence that non-human animals possess anything remotely resembling a ‘theory of mind’. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 362(1480), 731-744. (Sahar)

2014/07/14
  • Frith, U., & Happé, F. (1994). Language and communication in autistic disorders. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 346(1315), 97-104. (Sahar)
  • Frith, U., & Happé, F. (1994). Autism: Beyond “theory of mind”. Cognition, 50(1), 115-132. (Sahar)
  • Happé, F. (1999). Autism: cognitive deficit or cognitive style?. Trends in cognitive sciences, 3(6), 216-222. (Melody)
  • Happé, F., & Frith, U. (2006). The weak coherence account: detail-focused cognitive style in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 36(1), 5-25. (Melody)

2014/07/21
  • Ethofer, T., Gschwind, M., & Vuilleumier, P. (2011). Processing social aspects of human gaze: a combined fMRI-DTI study. Neuroimage, 55(1), 411-419. (Melody)
  • Hillebrandt, H., Dumontheil, I., Blakemore, S. J., & Roiser, J. P. (2013). Dynamic causal modelling of effective connectivity during perspective taking in a communicative task. Neuroimage, 76, 116-124. (Sahar)


PAST JCs (ordered from most recent to most distant semester)
Winter 2014
2014/02/05
  • Low, J., & Watts, J. (2013). Attributing False Beliefs About Object Identity Reveals a Signature Blind Spot in Humans’ Efficient Mind-Reading System. Psychological science, 24(3), 305-311. (Sahar)
  • Rubio-Fernández, P. (2013). Perspective tracking in progress: Do not disturb. Cognition, 129(2), 264-272. (Praveen)

2014/02/12
  • Apperly, I. A., & Butterfill, S. A. (2009). Do humans have two systems to track beliefs and belief-like states?. Psychological review, 116(4), 953-970. (Sahar)
  • Blog: http://www.cognitionandculture.net/home/blog/44-pierre-jacobs-blog/794-belief-ascription-in-infants-and-children-the-puzzle (Praveen)
  • Blog: http://www.cognitionandculture.net/home/blog/44-pierre-jacobs-blog/2455-do-we-use-different-tools-to-mindread-a-defendant-and-a-goalkeeper (Praveen)

2014/02/26
  • Lin, S., Keysar, B., & Epley, N. (2010). Reflexively mindblind: Using theory of mind to interpret behavior requires effortful attention. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(3), 551-556. (Praveen)
  • Newton, A. M., & de Villiers, J. G. (2007). Thinking While Talking Adults Fail Nonverbal False-Belief Reasoning. Psychological Science, 18(7), 574-579. (Sahar)

2014/03/05
  • Sommer, M., Döhnel, K., Sodian, B., Meinhardt, J., Thoermer, C., & Hajak, G. (2007). Neural correlates of true and false belief reasoning. Neuroimage, 35(3), 1378-1384. (Melody)
  • Meinhardt, J., Sodian, B., Thoermer, C., Döhnel, K., & Sommer, M. (2011). True-and false-belief reasoning in children and adults: An event-related potential study of theory of mind. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 1(1), 67-76. (Sahar)
  • Geangu, E., Gibson, A., Kaduk, K., & Reid, V. M. (2013). The neural correlates of passively viewed sequences of true and false beliefs. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 8(4), 432-437. (Praveen)

2014/03/12
  • Bedford, R., Elsabbagh, M., Gliga, T., Pickles, A., Senju, A., Charman, T., & Johnson, M. H. (2012). Precursors to social and communication difficulties in infants at-risk for autism: gaze following and attentional engagement. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 42(10), 2208-2218. (Praveen)
  • Jones, W., & Klin, A. (2013). Attention to eyes is present but in decline in 2-6-month-old infants later diagnosed with autism. Nature. (Sahar)
  • Yoon, J., & Vouloumanos, A. (2014). When and how does autism begin?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

2014/03/19
  • Schneider, D., Slaughter, V. P., Bayliss, A. P., & Dux, P. E. (2013). A temporally sustained implicit theory of mind deficit in autism spectrum disorders. Cognition, 129(2), 410-417. (Praveen)
  • Dufour, N., Redcay, E., Young, L., Mavros, P. L., Moran, J. M., Triantafyllou, C., ... & Saxe, R. (2013). Similar brain activation during false belief tasks in a large sample of adults with and without autism. PloS one, 8(9), e75468. (Sahar)

2014/03/26
  • Barrett, H. C., Broesch, T., Scott, R. M., He, Z., Baillargeon, R., Wu, D., ... & Laurence, S. (2013). Early false-belief understanding in traditional non-Western societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1755), 20122654. (Melody)
  • Kampis, D., Somogyi, E., Itakura, S., & Király, I. (2013). Do infants bind mental states to agents?. Cognition, 129(2), 232-240. (Sahar)

2014/04/02
  • Starmans, C., & Friedman, O. (2012). The folk conception of knowledge. Cognition, 124(3), 272-283. (Melody)
  • Nagel, J., Juan, V. S., & Mar, R. A. (2013). Lay denial of knowledge for justified true beliefs. Cognition, 129(3), 652-661. (Sahar)
  • Starmans, C., & Friedman, O. (2013). Taking ‘know’for an answer: A reply to Nagel, San Juan, and Mar. Cognition, 129(3), 662-665. (Melody)
  • Nagel, J., Mar, R., & San Juan, V. (2013). Authentic Gettier cases: A reply to Starmans and Friedman. Cognition, 129(3), 666-669. (Sahar)

Fall 2013-2014
2013/09/11
  • Humphrey, N. (1976). The Social Function of Intellect. in Bateson, P. P. G. and Hinde, R.A., Eds. Growing Points in Ethology, 303-317. Cambridge University Press.
  • Baron-Cohen, S. (1995). Chapters 1-3 in Mindblindness: An essay on autism and theory of mind. MIT press.
  • Goldman, A. I. (2012). "Theory of Mind," in E. Margolis et al, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Oxford University Press.

Summer 2012-2013
2013/05/20
Qureshi, A., Apperly, I.A. & Samson, D. (2010). Executive function is necessary for perspective-selection, not Level-1 visual perspective-calculation: Evidence from a dual-task study of adults. Cognition, 117, 230-236.
Surtees, A. & Apperly, I.A. (2012). Egocentrism and automatic perspective-taking in children and adults. Child Development. 83, 452–460.

2013/06/12
Epley, N., Keysar, B., van Boven, L., & Gilovich, T. (2004). Perspective taking as egocentric anchoring and adjustment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87(3), 327–339.
Waytz, A., & Mitchell, J. P. (2011). Two Mechanisms for Simulating Other Minds Dissociations Between Mirroring and Self-Projection. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 197-200.
Keysar, B., Lin, S.& Barr, D. J. (2003). Limits on theory of mind use in adults. Cognition, 89, 25-41.

2013/07/05
Aichhorn, M., Perner, J., Kronbichler, M., Staffen, W., & Ladurner, G. (2006). Do visual perspective tasks need theory of mind?. Neuroimage, 30(3), 1059-1068.
Ramsey, R., Hansen, P., Apperly, I., & Samson, D. (2013). Seeing it my way or your way: Frontoparietal brain areas sustain viewpoint-independent perspective selection processes. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 25(5), 670-684.

Winter 2012-2013
2013/02/13
Ferguson, H. J., & Breheny, R. (2011). Eye movements reveal the time-course of anticipating behaviour based on complex, conflicting desires. Cognition, 119(2), 179-196.
Paulus, M., Hunnius, S., van Wijngaarden, C., Vrins, S., van Rooij, I., & Bekkering, H. (2011). The role of frequency information and teleological reasoning in infants' and adults' action prediction. Developmental psychology, 47(4), 976.

2013/02/27
Spreng, R. N., Mar, R. A., & Kim, A. S. N. (2009). The common neural basis of autobiographical memory, prospection, navigation, theory of mind and the default mode: a quantitative meta-analysis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 489-510.
Corbetta, M., Patel, G., & Shulman, G. L. (2008). The reorienting system of the human brain: from environment to theory of mind. Neuron, 58(3), 306-324.

2013/03/06
Behrens, T. E., Hunt, L. T., & Rushworth, M. F. (2009). The computation of social behavior. Science, 324(5931), 1160-1164.
Mar, R. A. (2011). The neural bases of social cognition and story comprehension. Annual review of psychology, 62, 103-134.

Fall 2012-2013
2012/10/10
Schneider, D., Lam, R., Bayliss, A. P., & Dux, P. E. (2012). Cognitive load disrupts implicit theory of mind processing. Psychological Science, 23, 842-847.
Caron, A. J. (2009). Comprehension of the representational mind in infancy. Developmental Review, 29, 69-95.

2012/10/24
Onishi, K. H., & Baillargeon, R. (2005). Do 15-month-old infants understand false beliefs? Science, 308, 255-258.
Surian, L., Caldi, S., & Sperber, D. (2007). Attribution of beliefs to 13-month-old infants. Psychological Science, 18, 580–586.
Southgate, V., Senju, A. & Csibra, G. (2007). Action anticipation through attribution of false belief by two-year-olds. Psychological Science, 18, 587–592.
Senju, A., Southgate, V., White, S., & Frith, U. (2009). Mindblind eyes: An absence of spontaneous theory of mind in Asperger syndrome. Science, 325, 883-885.
Kovács, Á. M., Téglás, E., & Endress, A. D. (2010). The social sense: susceptibility to others' beliefs in human infants and adults. Science, 330, 1830–1834.

2012/10/31 & 2012/11/07
Buttelmann, D., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Eighteen-month-olds show false belief understanding in an active helping paradigm. Cognition, 112, 337-42.
Saxe, R. R., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Scholz, J., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2009). Brain regions for perceiving and reasoning about other people in school-aged children. Child Development, 80, 1197-1209.
Gweon H., Dodell-Feder D., Bedny M., Saxe R. (in press). Theory of Mind performance in children correlates with functional specialization of a brain region for thinking about thoughts. Child Development.

2012/11/14 postponed to 2012/11/28
Baron-Cohen, S., Leslie, A.M., & Frith, U. (1985). Does the autistic child have a "theory of mind"? Cognition, 21, 37–46.
Frith, U. & Frith, C. (2001). The biological basis of social interaction. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10, 151-155.
Lombardo, M.V., Chakrabarti, B., Bullmore, E.T., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2011). Specialization of right temporo-parietal junction for mentalizing and its relation to social impairments in autism. NeuroImage, 56, 1832–1838.

2012/12/05
Hampton AN, Bossaerts P, O'Doherty JP. (2008). Neural correlates of mentalizing-related computations during strategic interactions in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 105, 6741-6746.
Spreng, R. N., Mar, R. A., & Kim, A. S. N. (2009). The common neural basis of autobiographical memory, prospection, navigation, theory of mind and the default mode: a quantitative meta-analysis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 489-510.
Noordzij, M. L., Newman-Norlund, S. E., De Ruiter, J. P., Hagoort, P., Levinson, S. C. and Toni, I. (2010). Neural correlates of intentional communication. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 4, 1-7.
van der Meer, L., Groenewold, N. A., Nolen, W. A., Pijnenborg, M., & Aleman, A. (2011). Inhibit yourself and understand the other: Neural basis of distinct processes underlying Theory of Mind. Neuroimage, 56, 2364-2374.
Carter, R.M., Bowling, D. L., Reeck, C., & Huettel, S. A. (2012). A Distinct Role of the Temporal-Parietal Junction in Predicting Socially Guided Decisions. Science, 337, 109-111.