Object-Based Set-Shifting in Preschoolers: Relations to Theory of Mind

Self- and Social-Regulation: Exploring the Relations Between Social Interaction, Social Understanding, and the Development of Executive Functions

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kloo, Daniela ^a   Perner, Josef ^a   Giritzer, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Executive functions; Preschool children; Set shifting; Theory of mind; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920578567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195327694.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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