Do 18-month-olds really attribute mental states to others?: A critical test

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 878-880

  Senju, Atsushi ^a   Southgate, Victoria ^a   Snape, Charlotte ^a   Leonard, Mark ^a   Csibra, Gergely ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

eye tracking; infants; social cognition; theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PERCEPTION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SACCADES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960441289     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611411584     Document Type: Article

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