Procedural metacognition and false belief understanding in 3- to 5-year-old children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Bernard, Stéphane ^a   Proust, Joëlle ^b   Clément, Fabrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; UNCERTAINTY; ADULT; ANTICIPATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; MALE; METACOGNITION; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THEORY OF MIND; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; METACOGNITION; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLOGY, CHILD; THEORY OF MIND; UNCERTAINTY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84950293459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141321     Document Type: Article

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