ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on my recent and current work on the computational modelling of selected aspects of children’s theories of mind. The choice of a computational approach to these problems was made for fairly standard reasons. I wanted to achieve precise and computationally sufficient models and to be able to forge theoretical connections to general reasoning processes. Most of the research on early theory of mind phenomena has been based on verbal theorizing and diagnostic empirical studies. At this point, a fair amount is known about what concepts precede what other concepts, but very little is known about how children actually reason with these concepts and how they progress to more advanced levels. Understanding the mechanisms of reasoning and transition is what is needed, and computational approaches are likely to provide some insight into the nature of such mechanisms.
