Theories of children's developing understanding of mind tend to emphasize either
individualistic processes of theory formation, maturation, or introspection, or the process of …

Distortions in time perception and timed performance are presented by a number of different
neurological and psychiatric conditions (eg Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, attention …

The authors present a multicomponent dynamic developmental theory of human
autobiographical memory that emerges gradually across the preschool years. The …

Numerous studies show that children's language ability is related to false‐belief
understanding. However, there is considerable variation in the size of the correlation …

This paper explores a variety of different versions of the thesis that natural language is
involved in human thinking. It distinguishes amongst strong and weak forms of this thesis …

" Theory of mind" is the phrase researchers use to refer to children's understanding of
people as mental beings, who have beliefs, desires, emotions, and intentions, and whose …

This study assessed the relation between mother mental state language and child desire
language and emotion understanding in 15–24‐month‐olds. At both time points, mothers …

The ideas of Vygotsky [Vygotsky, LS (1987). Thinking and speech. In The collected works of
LS Vygotsky,(Vol. 1). New York: Plenum.(Original work published 1934.)] have been …

Though there is empirical support for the relation between parents' mental state talk to
children and children's social understanding, including false belief understanding (FBU) and …

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2013! Over the past thirty years, researchers have documented a remarkable growth in …