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Representing knowledge, belief, and everything in between: Representational complexity in humans and other apes.

Kresimir DurdevicChristopher Krupenye
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2021)
Building on Phillips and colleagues' case for the primacy of knowledge, we advocate for attention to diversity in mentalizing constructs within, as well as between, knowledge and belief. Ultimately, as great apes and other animals show, the development and evolution of theory of mind may reflect a much greater range of incremental elaborations of representational or computational complexity.
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