Wellman Henry M, Brandone Amanda C
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1843, USA.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2009 Feb;19(1):57-62. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2009.02.004. Epub 2009 Apr 3.
Intention understanding emerges early in human development, manifest in deep and robust fashions even in infants. Overlapping intention understandings, encompassing agents as intentional actors and experiencers, are evident in nonhuman primates in more limited fashions. Intention understandings, of the sort shared by infants and nonhuman primates, predict the more comprehensive theory-of-mind understandings of older children. Those early understandings provide a platform for the ontogenesis of further, deeper achievements in the human case.
意图理解在人类发展早期就已出现,甚至在婴儿身上也以深刻而稳固的方式表现出来。重叠的意图理解,包括将主体视为有意图的行为者和体验者,在非人类灵长类动物中以更有限的方式显现出来。婴儿和非人类灵长类动物所共有的那种意图理解,预示着年龄较大儿童更全面的心理理论理解。这些早期理解为人类进一步取得更深入成就的个体发生提供了一个平台。