The role of belief veracity in understanding intentions-in-action: Preschool children's performance on the transparent intentions task

Cognitive Development

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 775-792

  Russell, James ^a   Hill, Elisabeth L ^b   Franco, Fabia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Executive functioning; Intention; Metarepresentation; The 3 4 transition; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013285855     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2014(01)00057-0     Document Type: Article

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