Reading Minds: The Relation Between Children's Mental State Knowledge and Their Metaknowledge About Reading

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1876-1893

  Lecce, Serena ^a   Zocchi, Silvia ^a   Pagnin, Adriano ^a   Palladino, Paola ^a   Taumoepeau, Mele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; READING; THEORY OF MIND;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; THEORY OF MIND; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 78449269387     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01516.x     Document Type: Article

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