What fMRI can tell us about the ToM-EF connection: False beliefs, working memory, and inhibition

Young Children's Cognitive Development: Interrelationships Among Executive Functioning, Working Memory, Verbal Ability, and Theory of Mind

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 189-218

  Kain, Winfried ^a   Perner, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410612007     Document Type: Chapter

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