The conceptual underpinnings of pretense: Pretending is not 'behaving-as-if'

Cognition

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-124

  Friedman, Ori ^a   Leslie, Alan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concepts; Metarepresentation; Pretense; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THEORY; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FANTASY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS;

EID: 34547683903     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.09.007     Document Type: Article

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