Language, cognitive flexibility, and explicit false belief understanding: Longitudinal analysis in typical development and specific language impairment

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 223-235

  Farrant, Brad M ^a   Maybery, Murray T ^a   Fletcher, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THEORY OF MIND;

AGE FACTORS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVERSAL LEARNING; SEMANTICS; SEX FACTORS; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84856256100     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01681.x     Document Type: Article

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