The developmental paradox of false belief understanding: A dualsystem approach

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 751, Issue , 2011, Pages 32-49

  De Bruin, Leon ^a   Newen, Albert ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decoupling; False belief task; Implicit false belief understanding; Shared representations; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

DECOUPLING; FALSE BELIEFS; LAYERED MODEL; PERSPECTIVE TAKING; REPRESENTATION MECHANISM; SHARED REPRESENTATIONS; SYSTEM INTERACTIONS; THEORY OF MINDS;

EID: 84890869179     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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