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Effects of Labeling on Preschoolers' Explicit False Belief Performance: Outcomes of Cognitive Flexibility or Inhibitory Control?
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Low, Jason; Simpson, Samantha – Child Development, 2012
Executive function mechanisms underpinning language-related effects on theory of mind understanding were examined in a sample of 165 preschoolers. Verbal labels were manipulated to identify relevant perspectives on an explicit false belief task. In Experiment 1 with 4-year-olds (N = 74), false belief reasoning was superior in the fully and…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Preschool Children, Executive Function, Beliefs
Preschoolers' Implicit and Explicit False-Belief Understanding: Relations with Complex Syntactical Mastery
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Low, Jason – Child Development, 2010
Three studies were carried out to investigate sentential complements being the critical device that allows for false-belief understanding in 3- and 4-year-olds (N = 102). Participants across studies accurately gazed in anticipation of a character's mistaken belief in a predictive looking task despite erring on verbal responses for direct…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Preschool Children, Task Analysis, Eye Movements