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  title info:
    title: Mental files in perspective
    sub title: theory, development, and neural foundations
  name:
    name part: Perner, Josef
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : color illustrations.
  abstract: Intellectual development is primarily considered a domain specific enterprise. Children develop naïve physics, a folk psychology (theory of mind), a naïve biology, etc. But understanding perspective is a general, overarching phenomenon that cuts across such domains in development and in the brain. This has important theoretical consequences. For instance, our folk psychology cannot consist of a uniform 'theory of mind' for explaining behaviour. Parts of the theory that are sensitive to perspective differences have to be separated from those that are not. A central concern is how perspective is represented in the mind. The answer comes from mental files theory. This book introduces mental files theory in relation to object files and discourse referents and then applies it to the development of perspective taking in early childhood and to brain imaging.
  abstract: "The prime focus is to extend mental files theory to the development of perspective taking in early childhood. The theory is predestined not only for work on perspective; it is the theoretical tool for describing a cognitive system that represents persisting objects, tracks them over time, and stores knowledge about them. Cognitive Psychology has badly neglected this fundamental aspect. I extend the application of mental files as object files in perception and as discourse referents in linguistics to verbal perspectives on visible objects. Philosophical work identifies a particular perspective with a mental file. Taking different perspectives on an object requires different, coreferential files of that object. Each file represents an object; coreferential files would make one think of more objects than there are. To avoid numerical confusion, coreferential files must be consolidated, an ability that develops between 3 to 5 years of age. Developmental progress on a large variety of tasks that require this ability fits this prescription. Tasks range from understanding false beliefs, false direction signs, photographic evidence, the appearance–reality distinction, visual perspective, interpretation of ambiguous figures, alternative naming, overcoming mutual exclusivity to processing identity statements. The sequence of understanding higher-order combinations of beliefs, knowledge, and conceptual perspectives follows from the mental files involved. Synchronous success in such different areas shows the theory's power of explaining developmental patterns that are not domain-specific"--
  table of contents: Introduction why perspective, why mental files? -- Mental files theory -- Deployment -- Tracking -- Identity -- Perspectives -- Beliefs, signs, images -- Appearances -- Language : mutual exclusivity and alternative naming -- Consolidation : identity de facto and switching names -- Higher-order perspectives -- Consolidating coreferential files in the brain -- Reflections.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Josef Perner.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive psychology
  subject:
    topic: Child psychology
  subject:
    topic: Perspective (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Psychologie cognitive
  subject:
    topic: Enfants
    topic: Psychologie
  subject:
    topic: Perspective (Philosophie)
  subject:
    topic: Child psychology
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive psychology
  subject:
    topic: Perspective (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  classification: BF201 .P4 2025
  classification: 153
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      name part: Perner, Josef, 1948-
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
    identifier: (DLC) 2025933865
    identifier: (OCoLC)1504289684
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  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 250610
    record change date: 20260319210321.1
    record identifier: in00005728465
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng