?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Sharedness+and+privateness+in+human+early+social+life%0A&rft.creator=Tirassa%2C+Maurizio&rft.creator=Bosco%2C+Francesca+M.&rft.creator=Colle%2C+Livia&rft.subject=Neuropsychology&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.subject=Primatology&rft.subject=Comparative+Psychology&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Evolutionary+Psychology&rft.subject=Clinical+Psychology&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.subject=Epistemology&rft.description=This+research+is+concerned+with+the+innate+predispositions+underlying+human+intentional+communication.+Human+communication+is+currently+defined+as+a+circular+and+overt+attempt+to+modify+a+partner's+mental+states.+This+requires+each+party+involved+to+posse+ss+the+ability+to+represent+and+understand+the+other's+mental+states%2C+a+capability+which+is+commonly+referred+to+as+mindreading%2C+or+theory+of+mind+(ToM).+The+relevant+experimental+literature+agrees+that+no+such+capability+is+to+be+found+in+the+human+speci+es+at+least+during+the+first+year+of+life%2C+and+possibly+later.+This+paper+aims+at+advancing+a+solution+to+this+theoretical+problem.+We+propose+to+consider+sharedness+as+the+basis+for+intentional+communication+in+the+infant+and+to+view+it+as+a+primitive%2C+i+nnate+component+of+her+cognitive+architecture.+Communication+can+then+build+upon+the+mental+grounds+that+the+infant+takes+as+shared+with+her+caregivers.+We+view+this+capability+as+a+theory+of+mind+in+a+weak+sense.%E2%80%BA&rft.publisher=Elsevier&rft.date=2006&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5215%2F1%2F2006cogsysres.pdf&rft.identifier=++Tirassa%2C+Maurizio+and+Bosco%2C+Francesca+M.+and+Colle%2C+Livia++(2006)+Sharedness+and+privateness+in+human+early+social+life.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5215%2F