The Theory of Mind Under Scrutiny

Part 1. Fundamental Issues in ToM and new Perspectives.- 1. Interdisciplinary Debates and Approaches on ToM, AI, and Language (Sergio Marín Conejo).- 2. An introduction to Theory of Mind: Fundamental Concepts and Issues (Miriam Rivero-Contreras, David Saldaña and Martina Micai).- 3. A Mental Files Theory of Mind: How Children Represent belief and its Aspectuality (Michael Huemer).- Part 2. Pathologies Associated with ToM.- 4. Theory of Mind and Reading (Pablo Delgado and Isabel R. Rodríguez-Ortiz).- 5. Theory of Mind and Psychopathology: A comprehensive Assessment and an Overview of Impairments in Neuropsychiatric Disorders  (Pilar de la Higuera-González, Alejandra Gálvez-Merlín, Elisa Rodríguez-Toscano, Jorge Andreo-Jover, and Alejandro de la Torre-Luque).- 6. Theory of Mind in Autism: from a Primary Deficit to just Mutual Misunderstanding? (Gema Erena-Guardia, and Mila Vulchanova and David Saldaña).- 7. Theory of Mind after Acquired Brain Injury: basic Aspects, Evaluation, and Intervention (Inés Abalo-Rodríguez, Jesús Cabrera-Álvarez, Sandra Doval, Alberto Fernández Lucas, and Dolores Villalobos).- 8. Theory of Mind in Children who are Deaf: the Importance of Early Language and Conversational Access (Kimberly Peters and David B. Pisoni).- 9. Analyzing the Dynamics between Theory of Mind, Speech Disorders, and Language Rewiring in Aphasia (Teresa Lopez-Soto).- 10. Sleep and its Disorders: when ToM is not awake (Montes-Latorre & Porcacchia).- 11. Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axes and Relationship with Stress, Mood, Personality, and Neurocognitive Functioning (Ana María Martínez Robayo).- Part 3. ToM from the Perspective of Philosophy of Mind.- 12. What we are for us, what we are for Others: Consciousness and Identity (Pilar López Segura, Tomás Ortiz Alonso).- 13. The Mind-body Problem: an Overview of Proposed Solutions (Javier Alejandro Galadí).- 14. Do I Really Believe that? A Mind-reading Account of Belief Self-ascription

Teresa Lopez-Soto - Tenure Professor at the Department of English Language and Main Researcher at the Laboratory of Speech and Phonetic Sciences, University of Seville. Adjunct Faculty at the Institute for the Empirical Study of Language, University of Ohio and at the School of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid. Main areas of research: neurophysiological and electrophysiological methods in language, language pathologies, psychopathology, clinical linguistics and computational linguistics.

ÁLVARO GARCÍA LÓPEZ he was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1986. He received the B.S. degree in industrial electronics technical engineering, the M.S. degree in industrial electronics, and the Ph.D degree in electronic engineering from the Carlos III University of Madrid, in 2010, 2016 and 2022 respectively.

From 2006 to 2021, he worked in different electronics and quality companies. Since 2017, he has been a Researcher with the Displays and Photonic Applications Group, Carlos III University and since 2021, the Spanish Center for Captioning and Audio Description (CESyA). He has been teaching as Associated Professor in Carlos III University since 2020. He is currently with CESyA in Madrid, Spain. He has authored 3 reports, one of them awarded the prize for the best scientific dissemination video of the year 2020 by IEEE Access, 5 international conferences and one patent.José Francisco Salguero Lamillar - Full Professor of General Linguistics at the Department of Spanish Language, Linguistics and Theory of Literature of the University of Seville. Founding member of the Research Unit on Logic, Language and Information - Andalucía Tech (UILLI-AT). Main research areas: Semantics and Meaning Theory, Formal Grammars, Cognition, Knowledge Representation and Language, Non-Classical Logics.