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Peer reviewedPerner, Josef; Lang, Birgit; Kloo, Daniela – Child Development, 2002
Two experiments examined whether the correlation between advances on theory-of-mind and executive function tasks results from the tasks posing the same executive demands among 3- to 6- year-olds. Findings indicated that performance on the dimensional change card-sorting task (a measure of executive function) was correlated with performance on the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Tests
Peer reviewedWoolfe, Tyron; Want, Stephen C.; Siegal, Michael – Child Development, 2002
Two studies investigated the effect of language input on theory of mind by comparing the performance of deaf native-signing children (ages 4 to 8) raised by deaf signing parents and deaf late-signing children raised by hearing parents on "thought picture" measures of theory of mind. Findings indicated that deaf late signers showed…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Tests
The Relation between Children's and Mothers' Mental State Language and Theory-of-Mind Understanding.
Peer reviewedRuffman, Ted; Slade, Lance; Crowe, Elena – Child Development, 2002
This longitudinal study investigated the relation between mothers' descriptions of mental states portrayed in pictures and 2- to 4-year-old children's theory of mind. Mothers described pictures to children at 3 different times during the year. Findings indicated that mothers' use of mental state utterances at early time points correlated with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Emotional Response
