Matched false-belief performance during verbal and nonverbal interference

Cognitive Science

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1148-1156

  Dungan, James ^a   Saxe, Rebecca ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Theory of mind; Verbal shadowing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THEORY OF MIND; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; THEORY OF MIND; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84864357353     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01248.x     Document Type: Article

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