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Action, Consciousness and Theory of Mind: Children's Ability to Coordinate Story Characters' Actions and Thoughts
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Pelletier, Janette; Astington, Janet Wilde – Early Education and Development, 2004
This study reports on an analysis of the relation between kindergarten children's developing theory of mind and their understanding of characters' actions and consciousness in story narrative, based on Bruner's (1986) notion of the dual landscapes of action and consciousness. Wordless picture books were used to model these two aspects of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Picture Books, Language Aptitude, Cognitive Development