Memory span as a predictor of false belief understanding

New Zealand Journal of Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 36-43

  Keenan, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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