Children’s first and second-order false-belief reasoning in a verbal and a low-verbal task

Synthese

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 321-333

  Hollebrandse, Bart ^a   van Hout, Angeliek ^a   Hendriks, Petra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Language; Second order false belief; Theory of Mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867510030     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-012-0169-9     Document Type: Article

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