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Carlson, Stephanie M.; Claxton, Laura J.; Moses, Louis J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
A simple "expression" account of the relation between executive function (EF) and children's developing theory of mind (ToM) has difficulty accounting for the generality of the changes occurring in children's mental-state understanding during the preschool years. The current study of preschool children (N = 43) showed that EF--especially…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Theory of Mind, Correlation, Preschool Children
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Homer, Bruce D.; Petroff, Natalya; Hayward, Elizabeth O. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
The effects of language on symbolic functioning were examined using the "boxes task," a new symbolic understanding task based on DeLoache's model task. Children ("N" = 32; ages 2;4--3;8) observed an object being hidden in a stack of four boxes and were then asked to retrieve a similar object in the same location from a set of…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Language Usage, Age Differences, Verbal Ability