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Is shared intentionality widespread among and unique to humans?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2005

Giyoo Hatano  and
Keiko Takahashi
Giyoo Hatano*
Affiliation:
Human Development and Education Program, University of the Air, Chiba261-8586, Japan
Keiko Takahashi*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo150-8938, Japan
*
giyoo-h@qb3.so-net.ne.jp
keiko-ta@fb3.so-net.ne.jp
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Abstract

We agree that motivation to share emotions and other mental states is crucial for communicative development, but human infants are highly selective in sharing mental states, and this is well taken evolutionarily. Young chimpanzees may also have motivation to imitate mothers. Thus, uniquely human cognition and culture may not be reduced to a few basic abilities and/or inclinations.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 5 , October 2005 , pp. 703
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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