Advanced theory of mind understanding

我建议的项目符合一个被称为心理理论(TOM)的跨学科研究领域，该领域借鉴了认知心理学、(心理和语言)哲学、语言学和神经科学。发展性心理理论研究考察了儿童认识到人有欲望、信念和意图的能力的发展，因此，根据这些心理结构可以更好地理解和预测人。虽然我们对6岁以前的心理理论发展了解很多，但相对较少的人知道这种理解在儿童早期以后是如何发展的(Dumontheil，Apperly，&Blakemore，2010)。

My proposed project fits within an interdisciplinary research area known as Theory of Mind (ToM), which draws from cognitive psychology, philosophy (of mind and of language), linguistics, and neuroscience. Developmental ToM research examines children's growing ability to recognize that people have desires, beliefs, and intentions, and consequently that people can be best understood and predicted on the basis of these mental constructs. Although we know a great deal about ToM development up to the age of 6, relatively little is known about how this understanding progresses beyond early childhood (Dumontheil, Apperly, & Blakemore, 2010).