Infants' Reasoning About Others' False Perceptions

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1789-1795

  Song, Hyun joo ^a   Baillargeon, Renée ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

action comprehension; false perception; infant cognition; psychological reasoning; theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 56349084541     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013774     Document Type: Article

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