Infants' Joint Attention Skills Predict Toddlers' Emerging Mental State Language

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1207-1219

  Kristen, Susanne ^a   Sodian, Beate ^a   Thoermer, Claudia ^a   Perst, Hannah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intention reading; Joint attention; Longitudinal development; Mental state language; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENTION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 80052832999     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024808     Document Type: Article

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