The organization of verbs of knowing: Evidence for cultural commonality and variation in theory of mind

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 813-825

  Schwanenflugel, Paula J ^a   Martin, Mike ^b   Takahashi, Tomone ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b German Center for Research on Aging   (Germany)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032695593     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03198534     Document Type: Article

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