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Triggering the intentional stance.

Raymond A Mar1, C Neil Macrae

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada.

Novartis Foundation Symposium
|January 12, 2007
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Humans readily attribute intention, but spontaneous mentalizing conditions remain unclear. New research using infants and neuroimaging bypasses self-report limitations, exploring the neural basis of abstract versus biological agent perception.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Philosophy of Mind

Background:

  • Humans frequently adopt the 'intentional stance,' perceiving agents in targets.
  • Previous research on geometric shapes suggests spontaneous mentalizing but relies on subjective self-report.
  • Methodological limitations hinder understanding of the automatic nature of mentalizing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the conditions that spontaneously elicit mentalizing processes.
  • To explore the automatic and obligatory nature of mentalizing by circumventing self-report.
  • To examine if abstract non-biological stimuli engage the same neural architecture as biological agents during spontaneous mentalizing.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing prelinguistic infants to study early-developing mentalizing.

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  • Employing neuroimaging technologies to objectively measure neural activity.
  • Implementing methods that avoid explicit self-report measures.

    • Main Results:

    • Recent research using infants and neuroimaging generally corroborates prior findings on mentalizing.
    • These advanced methods provide new insights into the automaticity of mentalizing.
    • New questions arise regarding the neural instantiation of mentalizing for abstract versus biological stimuli.

    Conclusions:

    • Spontaneous mentalizing can be studied objectively in infants and via neuroimaging.
    • The neural underpinnings of perceiving intention in abstract versus biological agents require further investigation.
    • Understanding the automaticity and neural basis of the intentional stance is crucial.