Mind-mindedness and theory of mind: Mediating roles of language and perspectival symbolic play

Child Development

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1777-1790

  Meins, Elizabeth ^a   Fernyhough, Charles ^a   Arnott, Bronia ^a   Leekam, Susan R ^b   De Rosnay, Marc ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MINDFULNESS; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECREATION; SYMBOLISM; THEORY OF MIND;

ADULT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MINDFULNESS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SYMBOLISM; THEORY OF MIND; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84877921740     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12061     Document Type: Article

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