Using Theory of Mind

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 104-109

  Liszkowski, Ulf ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action prediction; False belief; Prelinguistic communication; Usage based theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877663039     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12025     Document Type: Article

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