Attention and association explain the emergence of reasoning about false beliefs in young children

Proceedings of ICCM 2007 - 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 169-174

  Bello, Paul ^a   Bignoli, Perrin ^a   Cassimatis, Nicholas ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING; COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES; COGNITIVE MODEL; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; FOCUS OF ATTENTION; SIMULATION THEORY; THEORY OF MINDS; THEORY THEORIES;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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