Theory of Mind in Infancy

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-43

  Sodian, Beate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

False belief in infancy; Goal encoding; Infant social cognition; Intention understanding; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 79851497636     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2010.00152.x     Document Type: Article

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