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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"theory-of-mind development"”.
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Environmental and Cognitive Factors Influencing Children's Theory-of-mind Development
… date, there is compelling evidence to show that theory-of-mind development is influenced by different environmental and cognitive factors. However, despite our understanding of the different individual processes that facilitate theory-of-mind acquisition, what remains relatively unclear is how …
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Seeing and Believing: Philosophical Issues in Theory of Mind Development
<p>All human beings understand the behaviors of others as causal results of their mental states. Philosophers call this ability folk psychology and developmental researchers call it theory of mind (ToM). My dissertation concerns how this reasoning works and how it is acquired. </p> <p>First, I …
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Theory of mind development and executive functioning in elementary school children
The following study explored the role of verbal ability and executive functioning in theory of mind understanding in elementary school children. Scores on measures of language comprehension, verbal ability (sentence memory, and forward digit span), matrix completion, executive functioning (backward …
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Theory of mind development : comparing autism spectrum disorder subgroups in light of changing diagnostic criteria
… proposed that autism is fundamentally a disorder of social relatedness. Severe deficits in theory of mind (ToM) - or the ability to understand that other people can have mental states different from our own and that these mental states influence behaviour - are commonly thought to explain the …
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Semantic and pragmatic language development in typical acquisition, autism spectrum disorders, and Williams syndrome with reference to developmental neurogenetics of the latter
The elucidation of the biological bases of a complex trait like human language proceeds from identification of precise behavioral phenotypes to investigation of the underlying genes. The human behavioral parts of this dissertation focus on understanding the reasons for children's overuse of …
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The relationship between childhood attachment, parenting styles and social development in autism spectrum disorder
… not enough is known about the origin and impact of these impairments. Current research agrees that deficits in Theory of Mind (ToM) contribute to the social disconnectedness evident in children with ASD. Furthermore, studies in neurotypical populations have found significant links between …
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Beta EEG as a Correlate of Belief-Reasoning in Preschoolers
… that conflict with one’s own. A milestone in Theory of Mind development is understanding false beliefs: the realization that others may hold representations of the world that differ from one’s own perspective (Wellman & Cross, 2001). The False Belief (FB) task has traditionally assessed this …