Preprint

Leslie, A.M., Gelman, R., & Gallistel, C.R. (in press). The generative basis of natural number concepts. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. email

Recent

Leslie, A.M., Gallistel, C.R., & Gelman, R. (2007). Where integers come from. In P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, & S. Stich, (Eds.), The Innate Mind: Foundations and Future. (pp. 109–138). Oxford: Oxford University Press. email
Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (2007). The conceptual underpinnings of pretense: Pretending is not ‘behaving-as-if’. Cognition, 105, 103–124. PDF (291)
Leslie, A.M., & Chen, M.L. (2007). Individuation of pairs of objects in infancy. Developmental Science, 10, 423–430. PDF (214KB)
Leslie, A.M., & Káldy, Z. (2007). Things to remember: Limits, codes, and the development of object working memory in the first year. In L.M. Oakes & P.J. Bauer (Eds.), Short- and long-term memory in infancy and early childhood: Taking the first steps toward remembering. (pp. 103–125). Oxford: Oxford University Press. email
Biro, S., & Leslie, A.M. (2007). Infants’ perception of goal-directed action: Development through cue-based bootstrapping. Developmental Science, 10, 379–398. PDF (786)
Onishi, K.H., Baillargeon, R., & Leslie, A.M. (2007). 15-month-old infants detect violations in pretend sequences. Acta Psychologica, 124, 106–128. PDF (958KB)
Leslie, A.M., Mallon, R., & DiCorcia, J.A. (2006). Transgressors, victims, and cry babies: Is basic moral judgment spared in autism? Social Neuroscience, 1, 270–283. PDF (210KB)
Káldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Leslie, A.M. (2006). A new method for calibrating perceptual salience in infants: The case of color vs luminance. Developmental Science, 9, 482–489. PDF (277KB)
Leslie, A.M., Knobe, J., & Cohen, A. (2006). Acting intentionally and the side-effect effect: ‘Theory of mind’ and moral judgment. Psychological Science, 17, 421–427. PDF (179KB)
Bosco, F., Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (2006). Recognition of pretend and real actions in play by one- and two-year-olds: Early success and why they fail. Cognitive Development, 21, 3–10. PDF (169KB)
Leslie, A.M. (2005). Developmental parallels in understanding minds and bodies. Research Focus.Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 459–462. PDF (207KB)
Káldy, Z., & Leslie, A.M. (2005). A memory span of one? Object identification in 6.5-month-old infants. Cognition, 97, 153–177. PDF (415KB)
Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (2005). Processing demands in belief-desire reasoning: Inhibition or general difficulty? Developmental Science, 8, 218–225. PDF (117KB)
Leslie, A.M., German, T.P., & Polizzi, P. (2005). Belief-desire reasoning as a process of selection.Cognitive Psychology, 50, 45–85. PDF (785KB)
Leslie, A.M., Friedman, O., & German, T.P. (2004). Core mechanisms in ‘theory of mind’. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 528–533. PDF (177KB)
Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (2004a). A developmental shift in processes underlying successful belief-desire reasoning. Cognitive Science, 28, 963–977. PDF (200KB)
Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (2004b). Mechanisms of belief-desire reasoning: Inhibition and selection. Psychological Science, 15, 547–552. PDF (153KB)

Past Publications

Baron-Cohen, S., Leslie, A.M., & Frith, U. (1985). Does the autistic child have a “theory of mind”?Cognition, 21, 37–46. PDF (243KB)
Frith, U., Morton, J., & Leslie, A.M. (1991). The cognitive basis of a biological disorder: Autism.Trends in Neurosciences, 14, 433–438. PDF (495KB)
German, T.P., & Leslie, A.M. (2001). Children’s inferences from knowing to pretending andbelieving. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19, 59–83. PDF (378KB)
Káldy, Z., & Leslie, A.M. (2003). Identification of objects in 9-month-old infants: integrating ‘what’ and ‘where’ information. Developmental Science, 6, 360–373. PDF (494KB)
Leslie, A.M. (1984a). Infant perception of agency when a hand picks up an object. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2, 19–32. PDF (1990KB) [I’ve changed the original title slightly to make it comprehensible.]
Leslie, A.M. (1984b). Spatiotemporal continuity and the perception of causality in infants.Perception, 13, 287–305. PDF (658KB)
Leslie, A.M. (1986). Getting development off the ground. In P. van Geert (Ed.), Theory building in developmental psychology, (pp. 405–437). Elsevier Science Publications. PDF(338KB) [Was this the first discussion of the role of modularity in development?]
Leslie, A.M. (1987). Pretense and representation: The origins of “theory of mind”. Psychological Review, 94, 412–426. PDF (506KB)
Leslie, A.M. (1988). The necessity of illusion: Perception and thought in infancy. In L. Weiskrantz (Ed.), Thought without language, (pp. 185–210). Oxford: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press.(PDF 460KB)
Leslie, A.M. (1992). Pretense, autism, and the “theory-of-mind” module. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1, 18–21. (Reprinted in R.P. Honeck (Ed.), Introductory Readings for Cognitive Psychology, 3rd edition, Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 1997. ) PDF (395KB)
Leslie, A.M. (1994a). Pretending and believing: Issues in the theory of ToMM. Cognition, 50, 211–238. (PDF 2047KB)
Leslie, A.M. (1994b). ToMM, ToBy, and Agency: Core architecture and domain specificity. In L. Hirschfeld and S. Gelman (Eds.), Mapping the mind: Domain specificity in cognition and culture, (pp. 119–148). New York: Cambridge University Press. (PDF 365KB)
Leslie, A.M. (2000a). How to acquire a ‘representational theory of mind’. In D. Sperber (Ed.),Metarepresentations: An Multidisciplinary perspective. (pp. 197–223). Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF (131KB)
Leslie, A.M. (2000b). ‘Theory of mind’ as a mechanism of selective attention. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.),The New Cognitive Neurosciences, 2nd Edition. (pp. 1235–1247). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. PDF (761KB)
Leslie, A.M. (2002). Pretense and representation revisited. In N.L. Stein, P.J. Bauer, and M. Rabinowitz (Eds.), Representation, memory and development. Essays in honor of Jean Mandler. (pp. 103–114). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. PDF (251KB)
Leslie, A.M., & Frith, U. (1988). Autistic children’s understanding of seeing, knowing and believing.British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6, 315–324. PDF (407KB)
Leslie, A.M., & Frith, U. (1990). Prospects for a cognitive neuropsychology of autism: Hobson’s choice. Psychological Review, 97, 122–131. PDF (1210KB)
Leslie, A.M., & Káldy, Z. (2001). Indexing individual objects in infant working memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 78, 61–74. PDF (54KB)
Leslie, A.M., & Keeble, S. (1987). Do six-month-old infants perceive causality? Cognition, 25, 265–288. PDF (166KB)
Leslie, A.M., & Thaiss, L. (1992). Domain specificity in conceptual development: Neuropsychological evidence from autism. Cognition, 43, 225–251. PDF (352KB)
Leslie, A.M., & Polizzi, P. (1998). Inhibitory processing in the false belief task: Two conjectures.Developmental Science, 1, 247–253. PDF (430KB)
Leslie, A.M., Xu, F., Tremoulet, P., & Scholl, B. (1998). Indexing and the object concept: Developing ‘what’ and ‘where’ systems. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 10–18. PDF (608KB)
Perner, J., Frith, U., Leslie, A.M., & Leekam, S. (1989). Exploring the autistic child’s theory of mind: Knowledge, belief, and communication. Child Development, 60, 689–700. PDF (495KB)
Roth, D., & Leslie, A.M. (1991). The recognition of attitude conveyed by utterance: A study of preschool and autistic children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9, 315–330. PDF (630KB)
Roth, D., & Leslie, A.M. (1998). Solving belief problems: Toward a task analysis. Cognition, 66, 1–31. PDF (626KB)
Surian, L., & Leslie, A.M. (1999). Competence and performance in false belief understanding: A comparison of autistic and three-year-old children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17, 141–155. PDF (167KB)
Scholl, B.J., & Leslie, A.M. (2001). Minds, modules, and meta-analysis. Child Development, 72, 696–701. PDF (96KB)
Scholl, B.J., & Leslie, A.M. (1999a). Explaining the infant’s object concept: Beyond the perception/cognition dichotomy. In (Eds.), E. Lepore & Z. Pylyshyn, What is Cognitive Science?(pp. 26–73). Oxford: Blackwell. PDF (152KB)
Scholl, B.J., & Leslie, A.M. (1999b). Modularity, development, and ‘theory of mind’. Mind & Language, 14, 131–153. PDF (204KB)
Scott, F., Baron-Cohen, S., & Leslie, A.M. (1999). ‘If pigs could fly’: An investigation of counterfactual reasoning and imagination in children with autism. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17, 349–362. PDF (152KB)
Tremoulet, P., Leslie, A.M., & Hall, G. (2000). Infant attention to the shape and color of objects: Individuation and identification. Cognitive Development, 15, 499–522. PDF (596KB)

Publications

Preprint

Leslie, A.M., Gelman, R., & Gallistel, C.R. (in press). The generative basis of natural number concepts. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. email

Recent

Leslie, A.M., Gallistel, C.R., & Gelman, R. (2007). Where integers come from. In P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, & S. Stich, (Eds.), The Innate Mind: Foundations and Future. (pp. 109–138). Oxford: Oxford University Press. email

Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (2007). The conceptual underpinnings of pretense: Pretending is not ‘behaving-as-if’. Cognition, 105, 103–124. PDF (291)

Leslie, A.M., & Chen, M.L. (2007). Individuation of pairs of objects in infancy. Developmental Science, 10, 423–430. PDF (214KB)

Biro, S., & Leslie, A.M. (2007). Infants’ perception of goal-directed action: Development through cue-based bootstrapping. Developmental Science, 10, 379–398. PDF (786)

Onishi, K.H., Baillargeon, R., & Leslie, A.M. (2007). 15-month-old infants detect violations in pretend sequences. Acta Psychologica, 124, 106–128. PDF (958KB)

Leslie, A.M., Mallon, R., & DiCorcia, J.A. (2006). Transgressors, victims, and cry babies: Is basic moral judgment spared in autism? Social Neuroscience, 1, 270–283. PDF (210KB)

Káldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Leslie, A.M. (2006). A new method for calibrating perceptual salience in infants: The case of color vs luminance. Developmental Science, 9, 482–489. PDF (277KB)

Leslie, A.M., Knobe, J., & Cohen, A. (2006). Acting intentionally and the side-effect effect: ‘Theory of mind’ and moral judgment. Psychological Science, 17, 421–427. PDF (179KB)

Bosco, F., Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (2006). Recognition of pretend and real actions in play by one- and two-year-olds: Early success and why they fail. Cognitive Development, 21, 3–10. PDF (169KB)

Leslie, A.M. (2005). Developmental parallels in understanding minds and bodies. Research Focus.Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 459–462. PDF (207KB)

Káldy, Z., & Leslie, A.M. (2005). A memory span of one? Object identification in 6.5-month-old infants. Cognition, 97, 153–177. PDF (415KB)

Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (2005). Processing demands in belief-desire reasoning: Inhibition or general difficulty? Developmental Science, 8, 218–225. PDF (117KB)

Leslie, A.M., German, T.P., & Polizzi, P. (2005). Belief-desire reasoning as a process of selection.Cognitive Psychology, 50, 45–85. PDF (785KB)

Leslie, A.M., Friedman, O., & German, T.P. (2004). Core mechanisms in ‘theory of mind’. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 528–533. PDF (177KB)

Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (2004a). A developmental shift in processes underlying successful belief-desire reasoning. Cognitive Science, 28, 963–977. PDF (200KB)

Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (2004b). Mechanisms of belief-desire reasoning: Inhibition and selection. Psychological Science, 15, 547–552. PDF (153KB)

Past Publications

Baron-Cohen, S., Leslie, A.M., & Frith, U. (1985). Does the autistic child have a “theory of mind”?Cognition, 21, 37–46. PDF (243KB)

Frith, U., Morton, J., & Leslie, A.M. (1991). The cognitive basis of a biological disorder: Autism.Trends in Neurosciences, 14, 433–438. PDF (495KB)

German, T.P., & Leslie, A.M. (2001). Children’s inferences from knowing to pretending andbelieving. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19, 59–83. PDF (378KB)

Káldy, Z., & Leslie, A.M. (2003). Identification of objects in 9-month-old infants: integrating ‘what’ and ‘where’ information. Developmental Science, 6, 360–373. PDF (494KB)

Leslie, A.M. (1984a). Infant perception of agency when a hand picks up an object. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2, 19–32. PDF (1990KB) [I’ve changed the original title slightly to make it comprehensible.]

Leslie, A.M. (1984b). Spatiotemporal continuity and the perception of causality in infants.Perception, 13, 287–305. PDF (658KB)

Leslie, A.M. (1986). Getting development off the ground. In P. van Geert (Ed.), Theory building in developmental psychology, (pp. 405–437). Elsevier Science Publications. PDF(338KB) [Was this the first discussion of the role of modularity in development?]

Leslie, A.M. (1987). Pretense and representation: The origins of “theory of mind”. Psychological Review, 94, 412–426. PDF (506KB)

Leslie, A.M. (1988). The necessity of illusion: Perception and thought in infancy. In L. Weiskrantz (Ed.), Thought without language, (pp. 185–210). Oxford: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press.(PDF 460KB)

Leslie, A.M. (1992). Pretense, autism, and the “theory-of-mind” module. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1, 18–21. (Reprinted in R.P. Honeck (Ed.), Introductory Readings for Cognitive Psychology, 3rd edition, Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 1997. ) PDF (395KB)

Leslie, A.M. (1994a). Pretending and believing: Issues in the theory of ToMM. Cognition, 50, 211–238. (PDF 2047KB)

Leslie, A.M. (1994b). ToMM, ToBy, and Agency: Core architecture and domain specificity. In L. Hirschfeld and S. Gelman (Eds.), Mapping the mind: Domain specificity in cognition and culture, (pp. 119–148). New York: Cambridge University Press. (PDF 365KB)

Leslie, A.M. (2000a). How to acquire a ‘representational theory of mind’. In D. Sperber (Ed.),Metarepresentations: An Multidisciplinary perspective. (pp. 197–223). Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF (131KB)

Leslie, A.M. (2000b). ‘Theory of mind’ as a mechanism of selective attention. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.),The New Cognitive Neurosciences, 2nd Edition. (pp. 1235–1247). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. PDF (761KB)

Leslie, A.M. (2002). Pretense and representation revisited. In N.L. Stein, P.J. Bauer, and M. Rabinowitz (Eds.), Representation, memory and development. Essays in honor of Jean Mandler. (pp. 103–114). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. PDF (251KB)

Leslie, A.M., & Frith, U. (1988). Autistic children’s understanding of seeing, knowing and believing.British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6, 315–324. PDF (407KB)

Leslie, A.M., & Frith, U. (1990). Prospects for a cognitive neuropsychology of autism: Hobson’s choice. Psychological Review, 97, 122–131. PDF (1210KB)

Leslie, A.M., & Káldy, Z. (2001). Indexing individual objects in infant working memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 78, 61–74. PDF (54KB)

Leslie, A.M., & Keeble, S. (1987). Do six-month-old infants perceive causality? Cognition, 25, 265–288. PDF (166KB)

Leslie, A.M., & Thaiss, L. (1992). Domain specificity in conceptual development: Neuropsychological evidence from autism. Cognition, 43, 225–251. PDF (352KB)

Leslie, A.M., & Polizzi, P. (1998). Inhibitory processing in the false belief task: Two conjectures.Developmental Science, 1, 247–253. PDF (430KB)

Leslie, A.M., Xu, F., Tremoulet, P., & Scholl, B. (1998). Indexing and the object concept: Developing ‘what’ and ‘where’ systems. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 10–18. PDF (608KB)

Perner, J., Frith, U., Leslie, A.M., & Leekam, S. (1989). Exploring the autistic child’s theory of mind: Knowledge, belief, and communication. Child Development, 60, 689–700. PDF (495KB)

Roth, D., & Leslie, A.M. (1991). The recognition of attitude conveyed by utterance: A study of preschool and autistic children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9, 315–330. PDF (630KB)

Roth, D., & Leslie, A.M. (1998). Solving belief problems: Toward a task analysis. Cognition, 66, 1–31. PDF (626KB)

Surian, L., & Leslie, A.M. (1999). Competence and performance in false belief understanding: A comparison of autistic and three-year-old children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17, 141–155. PDF (167KB)

Scholl, B.J., & Leslie, A.M. (2001). Minds, modules, and meta-analysis. Child Development, 72, 696–701. PDF (96KB)

Scholl, B.J., & Leslie, A.M. (1999a). Explaining the infant’s object concept: Beyond the perception/cognition dichotomy. In (Eds.), E. Lepore & Z. Pylyshyn, What is Cognitive Science?(pp. 26–73). Oxford: Blackwell. PDF (152KB)

Scholl, B.J., & Leslie, A.M. (1999b). Modularity, development, and ‘theory of mind’. Mind & Language, 14, 131–153. PDF (204KB)

Scott, F., Baron-Cohen, S., & Leslie, A.M. (1999). ‘If pigs could fly’: An investigation of counterfactual reasoning and imagination in children with autism. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17, 349–362. PDF (152KB)

Tremoulet, P., Leslie, A.M., & Hall, G. (2000). Infant attention to the shape and color of objects: Individuation and identification. Cognitive Development, 15, 499–522. PDF (596KB)