Concurrent Relations Between Perspective-Taking Skills, Desire Understanding, and Internal-State Vocabulary

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 480-498

  Chiarella, Sabrina S ^a   Kristen, Susanne ^b   Poulin Dubois, Diane ^a   Sodian, Beate ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TODDLER; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84883471944     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: 15327647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2012.689390     Document Type: Article

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