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Josef Perner

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Josef Perner — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 60
Works: 198
Citations: 25K

Most-cited papers

Infants' Insight into the Mind: How Deep?
Josef Perner, Ted Ruffman
2005Science454 citations
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From infants’ to children's appreciation of belief
Josef Perner, Johannes Roessler
2012Trends in Cognitive Sciences261 citations Open access
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Do visual perspective tasks need theory of mind?
M. Aichhorn, Josef Perner, M. Kronbichler, W. Staffen +1 more
2006NeuroImage245 citations
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Thinking of mental and other representations: The roles of left and right temporo-parietal junction
Josef Perner, M. Aichhorn, M. Kronbichler, W. Staffen +1 more
2006Social Neuroscience238 citations
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Temporo-parietal Junction Activity in Theory-of-Mind Tasks: Falseness, Beliefs, or Attention
M. Aichhorn, Josef Perner, Benjamin Weiss, M. Kronbichler +2 more
2009Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience202 citations
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Common brain areas engaged in false belief reasoning and visual perspective taking: a meta-analysis of functional brain imaging studies
Matthias Schurz, M. Aichhorn, Anna Martin, Josef Perner
2013Frontiers in Human Neuroscience189 citations Open access
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Specifying the brain anatomy underlying temporo‐parietal junction activations for theory of mind: A review using probabilistic atlases from different imaging modalities
Matthias Schurz, Matthias G. Tholen, Josef Perner, R. Mars +1 more
2017Human Brain Mapping179 citations Open access
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Do infants really understand false belief? Response to Leslie.
Ted Ruffman, Josef Perner
2005Trends in Cognitive Sciences172 citations
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Implicit and explicit theory of mind: state of the art.
J. Low, Josef Perner
2012British Journal of Developmental Psychology166 citations
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Counterfactual reasoning: From childhood to adulthood
Eva Rafetseder, Maria Schwitalla, Josef Perner
2013Journal of Experimental Child Psychology148 citations Open access
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Disentangling dimensions in the dimensional change card-sorting task.
Daniela Kloo, Josef Perner
2005Developmental Science138 citations
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The Curious Incident of the Photo that was Accused of Being False: Issues of Domain Specificity in Development, Autism, and Brain Imaging
Josef Perner, S. Leekam
2008Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology122 citations Open access
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The foundations of metacognition
M. Beran, Johannes L. Brandl, Josef Perner, J. Proust
2012119 citations
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Counterfactual Reasoning: Developing a sense of “nearest possible world”
Eva Rafetseder, Renate Cristi-Vargas, Josef Perner
2010Child Development118 citations Open access
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Episodic memory development: theory of mind is part of re‐experiencing experienced events
Josef Perner, Daniela Kloo, E. Gornik
2007118 citations
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Clarifying the role of theory of mind areas during visual perspective taking: Issues of spontaneity and domain-specificity
Matthias Schurz, M. Kronbichler, Sebastian Weissengruber, Andrew D. R. Surtees +2 more
2015NeuroImage105 citations Open access
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Do infants understand false beliefs? We don’t know yet – A commentary on Baillargeon, Buttelmann and Southgate’s commentary
Diane Poulin-Dubois, H. Rakoczy, K. Burnside, C. Crivello +11 more
2018Cognitive development104 citations
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Knowledge before belief
T. Schlicht, Johannes L. Brandl, Frank Esken, H. Glock +6 more
2020Behavioral and Brain Sciences91 citations Open access
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An evaluation of neurocognitive models of theory of mind
Matthias Schurz, Josef Perner
2015Frontiers in Psychology82 citations Open access
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Escape from metaignorance: how children develop an understanding of their own lack of knowledge.
Michael Rohwer, Daniela Kloo, Josef Perner
2012Child Development80 citations
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Identity: Key to Children’s Understanding of Belief
Josef Perner, M. Mauer, Monika Hildenbrand
2011Science73 citations
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Perspective taking and cognitive flexibility in the Dimensional Change Card Sorting (DCCS) task
Daniela Kloo, Josef Perner, M. Aichhorn, Nicola Schmidhuber
201068 citations
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Training Theory of Mind and Executive Control: A Tool for Improving School Achievement?
Daniela Kloo, Josef Perner
200861 citations
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Helping as an early indicator of a theory of mind: Mentalism or Teleology?
Beate Priewasser, Eva Rafetseder, Carina Gargitter, Josef Perner
2017Cognitive development58 citations Open access
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Theory of mind, language and the temporoparietal junction mystery.
Josef Perner, M. Aichhorn
2008Trends in Cognitive Sciences58 citations
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False signs and the non-specificity of theory of mind: Evidence that preschoolers have general difficulties in understanding representations
S. Leekam, Josef Perner, Laura Healey, C. Sewell
200857 citations
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The robustness and generalizability of findings on spontaneous false belief sensitivity: a replication attempt
Tobias Schuwerk, Beate Priewasser, B. Sodian, Josef Perner
2018Royal Society Open Science56 citations Open access
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MiniMeta: in search of minimal criteria for metacognition
Josef Perner
201256 citations
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When the alternative would have been better: Counterfactual reasoning and the emergence of regret
Eva Rafetseder, Josef Perner
2012Cognition & Emotion55 citations
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Pro-social cognition: helping, practical reasons, and ‘theory of mind’
Josef Perner, M. Huemer, Brian Leahy
2015Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences54 citations Open access
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Objects of desire, thought, and reality: Problems of anchoring discourse referents in development
Josef Perner, Bibiane Rendl, A. Garnham
200753 citations Open access
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Processing counterfactual and hypothetical conditionals: An fMRI investigation
Eugenia Kulakova, M. Aichhorn, Matthias Schurz, M. Kronbichler +1 more
2013NeuroImage50 citations Open access
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Counterfactual Reasoning: Sharpening Conceptual Distinctions in Developmental Studies
Eva Rafetseder, Josef Perner
2014Child Development Perspectives47 citations Open access
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of Conditional Reasoning
Josef Perner, Eva Rafetseder
201144 citations
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Sorting between dimensions: conditions of cognitive flexibility in preschoolers.
Daniela Kloo, Josef Perner, A. Kerschhuber, Sandra Dabernig +1 more
2008Journal of Experimental Child Psychology43 citations
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Competition as rational action: Why young children cannot appreciate competitive games
Beate Priewasser, Johannes Roessler, Josef Perner
2013Journal of Experimental Child Psychology41 citations Open access
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Is hypnotic responding the strategic relinquishment of metacognition
Z. Dienes, M. Beran, Johannes L. Brandl, Josef Perner +1 more
201240 citations
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Is reasoning from counterfactual antecedents evidence for counterfactual reasoning?
Eva Rafetseder, Josef Perner
2010Thinking and Reasoning40 citations Open access
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What Does "That" Have to Do with Point of View? Conflicting Desires and "Want" in German
Josef Perner, Petra Zauner, Manuel Sprung
200539 citations
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Dissociating size representation for action and for conscious judgment: Grasping visual illusions without apparent obstacles.
Elisabeth Stöttinger, Josef Perner
2006Consciousness and Cognition33 citations
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Systematic Comparison of Brain Imaging Meta-Analyses of ToM with vPT
Aditi Arora, Matthias Schurz, Josef Perner
2017BioMed Research International32 citations Open access
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Opacity and Discourse Referents: Object Identity and Object Properties
Manuel Sprung, Josef Perner, P. Mitchell
200732 citations
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Direct and indirect admission of ignorance by children.
Daniela Kloo, Michael Rohwer, Josef Perner
2017Journal of Experimental Child Psychology31 citations
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Mental files: Developmental integration of dual naming and theory of mind
Martin J. Doherty, Josef Perner
2020Developmental Review30 citations Open access
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Retro- and prospection for mental time travel: Emergence of episodic remembering and mental rotation in 5- to 8-year old children
Josef Perner, Daniela Kloo, Michael Rohwer
2010Consciousness and Cognition30 citations Open access
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Left inferior-parietal lobe activity in perspective tasks: identity statements
Aditi Arora, Benjamin Weiss, Matthias Schurz, M. Aichhorn +2 more
2015Frontiers in Human Neuroscience29 citations Open access
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Teleology and causal understanding in children's theory of mind
Josef Perner, Johannes Roessler
201029 citations
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Mental Files in Development: Dual Naming, False Belief, Identity and Intensionality
Josef Perner, Brian Leahy
201628 citations
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Division of labour within the visual system: fact or fiction? Which kind of evidence is appropriate to clarify this debate?
Elisabeth Stöttinger, Kathrin Soder, J. Pfusterschmied, Herbert Wagner +1 more
2010Experimental Brain Research27 citations
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Basic Conditional Reasoning: How Children Mimic Counterfactual Reasoning
Brian Leahy, Eva Rafetseder, Josef Perner
2013Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic25 citations Open access
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