Thinking about false belief: It's not just what children say, but how long it takes them to say it

Cognition

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 297-301

  Atance, Cristina M ^a   Bernstein, Daniel M ^b,c   Meltzoff, Andrew N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual development; False belief reasoning; Response latencies; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; FALSE BELIEF; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RESPONSE TIME; THINKING; AGING; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION;

AGING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77954315814     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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