Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds

TEDGlobal 2009

Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults

Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults

Acute stress alters neural patterns of value representation for others

An asynchronous, automated workflow for looking time experiments with infants

Are some cultures more mind-minded in their moral judgements than others?

Children learn what is right or wrong selectively from a legitimate authority’s punishment

Children learn what is right or wrong selectively from a legitimate authority’s punishment

Children learn what is right or wrong selectively from a legitimate authority’s punishment

Desperation and inequality increase stealing: evidence from experimental microsocieties

Development of Predictive Responses in Theory of Mind Brain Regions

Do children have asymmetrical expectations about sharing in parent-child relationships?

Early concepts of intimacy: young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships

Early concepts of intimacy: young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships

Expectations of reciprocal generosity are specific to equal relationships

Generous acts have contrasting meanings in equal versus hierarchical social relationships

Habituation reflects optimal exploration over noisy perceptual samples

How do infants experience caregiving?

How rational inference about authority debunking can curtail, sustain or spread belief polarization

How taking turns communicates desired equality in social relationships

Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others

Infants use imitation but not comforting or social synchrony to evaluate those in social interactions

Infants use imitation but not comforting or social synchrony to evaluate those in social interactions

Infants use imitation but not comforting or social synchrony to evaluate those in social interactions

Infants use imitation but not comforting or social synchrony to evaluate those in social interactions

Just do it? Investigating the gap between prediction and action in toddlers’ causal inferences

Learning in Infancy is Active, Endogenously Motivated, and Depends on Prefrontal Cortices

No evidence for discontinuity between infants and adults

No evidence for familiarity preferences after partial exposure to visual concepts in preschoolers and infants

Open dataset of theory of mind reasoning in early to middle childhood

People have systematic expectations linking social relationships to patterns of reciprocal altruism

Precision fMRI reveals that the language network exhibits adult-like left-hemispheric lateralization by 4 years of age

Predicting graded dishabituation using perceptual stimulus embeddings in a rational learning model

Preferences for redistribution are sensitive to perceived luck, social homogeneity, war and scarcity

Preliminary evidence for selective cortical responses to music in one-month-old infants

Recognition of identity and expressions as integrated processes

Reduced Neural Selectivity for Mental States in Deaf Children with Delayed Exposure to Sign Language

Representation of navigational affordances and ego-motion in the occipital place area

Response Patterns in the Developing Social Brain are Organized by Social and Emotion Features and Disrupted in Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Selective Responses to Faces, Scenes, and Bodies in the Ventral Visual Pathway of Infants

Signaling social identity in referential communication

Stimulus and expectation-driven novelty independently guide infant looking behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Support for Open Science is Equally High in Opt-In versus Representative Samples of Scientists

The cortical scene processing network emerges in infancy, prior to independent navigation experience

Violations of physical and psychological expectations in the human adult brain

What people learn from punishment: a cognitive model

What people learn from punishment: joint inference of wrongness and punisher’s motivations from observation of punitive choices

‘If men were angels, no government would be necessary’: the intuitive theory of social motivation and preference for authoritarian leaders