Mindreading and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Perspective Taking: Establishing Common Ground

In this commentary on Memory and Common Ground Processes in Language Use, I draw attention to relevant work on mindreading. The concerns of research on common ground and mindreading have significant overlap, but these literatures have worked in relative isolation of each other. I attempt an assimilation, pointing out shared and distinctive concerns and mutually informative results. Apperly's commentary aims to bring clarity to the relationship between two lines of research, one that focuses on common ground, and a second line of work that examines mindreading. Findings from the two literatures are mutually relevant and related, and this commentary discusses key findings that have theoretical implications across these literatures.