What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Cognition
- Epistemology
- Linguistics
Cognitive psychology, Theory of mind, Cognitive development, Cognition and Social psychology are his primary areas of study.
He has included themes like Precuneus, Mental representation and Child development in his Cognitive psychology study.
His Theory of mind research includes elements of Functional Brain Imaging, Frith, Task, Cognitive science and Social cognition.
His Cognitive development study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Comprehension, Developmental psychology, False belief, Representational systems and Information processing theory.
His study in Cognition is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Microeconomics, Surprise and Function.
His Attribution and Deception study in the realm of Social psychology interacts with subjects such as Risk taking.
His most cited work include:
- Beliefs about beliefs: representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception. (4207 citations)
- Understanding the Representational Mind (1922 citations)
- Three-year-olds' difficulty with false belief: The case for a conceptual deficit (1180 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
His primary areas of investigation include Cognitive psychology, Theory of mind, Social psychology, Cognition and Cognitive development.
His Cognitive psychology research integrates issues from Counterfactual thinking, Object, False belief and Task.
His studies deal with areas such as Epistemology, Action, Cognitive science, Social cognition and Precuneus as well as Theory of mind.
Josef Perner has researched Social psychology in several fields, including Ignorance and Perception.
His work on Cognition is being expanded to include thematically relevant topics such as Developmental psychology.
His Cognitive development course of study focuses on Mental representation and Autism.
He most often published in these fields:
- Cognitive psychology (47.64%)
- Theory of mind (33.49%)
- Social psychology (25.94%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2012-2021)?
- Cognitive psychology (47.64%)
- Theory of mind (33.49%)
- Epistemology (13.68%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His primary areas of study are Cognitive psychology, Theory of mind, Epistemology, False belief and Teleology.
His research integrates issues of Counterfactual thinking, Social psychology, Precuneus, Cognition and Task in his study of Cognitive psychology.
Josef Perner combines Social psychology and Opt-out in his studies.
His Cognitive development and Comparative psychology study in the realm of Cognition connects with subjects such as Psychological intervention.
His Theory of mind study is focused on Neuroscience in general.
His work carried out in the field of False belief brings together such families of science as Attribution, Interpretation, Replication, Replication crisis and Cognitive science.
Between 2012 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Fractionating theory of mind: A meta-analysis of functional brain imaging studies (754 citations)
- Common brain areas engaged in false belief reasoning and visual perspective taking: a meta-analysis of functional brain imaging studies (94 citations)
- Counterfactual reasoning: from childhood to adulthood. (60 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Cognition
- Epistemology
- Cognitive science
Josef Perner spends much of his time researching Theory of mind, Cognitive psychology, Social psychology, False belief and Cognition.
His work deals with themes such as Teleology, Superior temporal sulcus and Mentalization, which intersect with Theory of mind.
His research in Cognitive psychology intersects with topics in Task, Developmental psychology, Generalizability theory, Perspective-taking and Precuneus.
His Social psychology study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Subjunctive mood, Neural correlates of consciousness and Sentence processing.
As a member of one scientific family, Josef Perner mostly works in the field of False belief, focusing on Epistemology and, on occasion, Replication crisis, Theory-theory, Spelling and Possession.
His Cognition study also includes fields such as
- Counterfactual thinking that connect with fields like Hot cognition, Cognitive development, Sharpening, Social psychology and Childhood development,
- Cognitive science that intertwine with fields like Neurocognitive and Cognitive analysis.
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