Episodic future thinking in 3- to 5-year-old children: The ability to think of what will be needed from a different point of view

Cognition

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 56-71

  Russell, James ^a   Alexis, Dean ^a   Clayton, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development of chronesthesia; Envisioning the future; Episodic cognition; Neuroscience of prospection; Perspective taking; Self versus other

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONESTHESIA; COGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTENTION; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORY OF MIND; THINKING; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 71549163782     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.08.013     Document Type: Article

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