Seventeen-month-olds appeal to false beliefs to interpret others' referential communication

Developmental Science

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 907-912

  Southgate, Victoria ^a   Chevallier, Coralie ^b   Csibra, Gergely ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DECEPTION; HUMAN; INFANT; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORY OF MIND;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DECEPTION; HUMANS; INFANT; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 78049288592     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00946.x     Document Type: Article

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