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Overview

Ian A. Apperly is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in the field of psychology. Their work focuses on several subfields, including developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology.

The main topics addressed in their research include child and animal learning development, autism spectrum disorder research, cultural differences and values, language, metaphor, and cognition, game theory and voting systems, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and action observation and synchronization.

Ian A. Apperly has contributed to various academic journals and publication venues, with frequent appearances in PLoS ONE, Bilingualism Language and Cognition, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, and Developmental Science.

Their recent papers include:

  • Willing and able? Theory of mind, social motivation, and social competence in middle childhood and early adolescence, 2021, Developmental Science
  • Defining key concepts for mental state attribution, 2024, Communications Psychology
  • Is recursive "mindreading" really an exception to limitations on recursive thinking?, 2023, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Measures of individual differences in adult theory of mind: A systematic review, 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Re-imaging the intentional stance, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Ian A. Apperly include Rory T. Devine, Daniel Ivan Perez-Zapata, Sanne W. van der Kleij, Andrea Krott, and P. Hansen.

Best Publications

  • Do Humans Have Two Systems to Track Beliefs and Belief-Like States?.

    Ian Apperly;Stephen Andrew Butterfill

  • Seeing it their way : evidence for rapid and involuntary computation of what other people see

    Dana Samson;Ian A. Apperly;Jason J. Braithwaite;Benjamin J. Andrews

  • Online Usage of Theory of Mind Continues to Develop in Late Adolescence.

    Iroise Dumontheil;Ian A. Apperly;Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

  • Mindreaders: The Cognitive Basis of "Theory of Mind"

    Ian Apperly

  • Left temporoparietal junction is necessary for representing someone else's belief

    Dana Samson;Ian A Apperly;Claudia Chiavarino;Glyn W Humphreys

  • How to Construct a Minimal Theory of Mind

    Stephen A. Butterfill;Ian A. Apperly

  • What is “theory of mind”? Concepts, cognitive processes and individual differences

    Ian A. Apperly

  • Executive function is necessary for perspective selection, not Level-1 visual perspective calculation: Evidence from a dual-task study of adults

    Adam W. Qureshi;Ian A. Apperly;Dana Samson

  • Frontal and Temporo-Parietal Lobe Contributions to Theory of Mind: Neuropsychological Evidence from a False-Belief Task with Reduced Language and Executive Demands

    Ian A. Apperly;Dana Samson;Claudia Chiavarino;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Seeing it my way: a case of a selective deficit in inhibiting self-perspective

    Dana Samson;Ian A. Apperly;Umalini Kathirgamanathan;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Children's Thinking About Counterfactuals and Future Hypotheticals as Possibilities

    Sarah R. Beck;Elizabeth J. Robinson;Daniel J. Carroll;Ian A. Apperly

  • Studies of adults can inform accounts of theory of mind development

    Ian A. Apperly;Dana Samson;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Egocentrism and automatic perspective taking in children and adults.

    Andrew D. R. Surtees;Ian A. Apperly

  • Making tools isn’t child’s play

    Sarah R. Beck;Ian A. Apperly;Jackie Chappell;Carlie Guthrie

  • Is Belief Reasoning Automatic

    Ian A. Apperly;Kevin J. Riggs;Andrew Simpson;Claudia Chiavarino

  • The cost of thinking about false beliefs: Evidence from adults’ performance on a non-inferential theory of mind task

    Ian A. Apperly;Elisa Back;Dana Samson

  • Beyond Simulation–Theory and Theory–Theory: Why social cognitive neuroscience should use its own concepts to study “theory of mind”

    Ian A. Apperly

  • Domain-specificity and theory of mind: evaluating neuropsychological evidence.

    Ian A. Apperly;Dana Samson;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Why are there limits on theory of mind use? Evidence from adults’ ability to follow instructions from an ignorant speaker:

    Ian A. Apperly;Daniel J. Carroll;Dana Samson;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Altercentric interference in level 1 visual perspective taking reflects the ascription of mental states, not submentalizing.

    Tiziano Vincenzo Furlanetto;Cristina Becchio;Dana Samson;Ian Apperly

  • Tool innovation may be a critical limiting step for the establishment of a rich tool-using culture: a perspective from child development.

    Sarah R. Beck;Jackie Chappell;Ian A. Apperly;Nicola Cutting

Frequent Co-Authors

Dana Samson
Dana Samson Université Catholique de Louvain
Peter C. Hansen
Peter C. Hansen University of Birmingham
Sarah R. Beck
Sarah R. Beck University of Birmingham
Glyn W. Humphreys
Glyn W. Humphreys University of Oxford
Elizabeth J. Robinson
Elizabeth J. Robinson University of Warwick
Chris Oliver
Chris Oliver University of Birmingham
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore University of Cambridge
Hannes Rakoczy
Hannes Rakoczy University of Göttingen
Sotaro Kita
Sotaro Kita University of Warwick
Markus Bindemann
Markus Bindemann University of Kent

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