Media: Radio - Mind reading

(Engines of Our Ingenuity, episode 1798)

"Chimpanzees and other animals do remarkable things; but as yet it seems that the only creatures who can read intentions are we humans.

As biologists study parts of the brain where we process our readings of intention, they find that the evolution of language also requires that ability. To understand language, says one psychologist, we must know what people intend when they refer to things."