A developmental shift in processes underlying successful belief-desire reasoning

Cognitive Science

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 963-977

  Friedman, Ori ^a   Leslie, Alan M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief desire reasoning; Inhibition; Selection Processing; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 8844220853     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsci.2004.07.001     Document Type: Article

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