Counterfactual conditionals and false belief: A developmental dissociation

Cognitive Development

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 179-201

  Perner, Josef ^a   Sprung, Manuel ^a   Steinkogler, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Conditional reasoning; Counterfactual conditionals; False belief

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342435009     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2003.12.001     Document Type: Article

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