Can processing demands explain toddlers’ performance in false-belief tasks?

Two-and-a-half-year-olds normally fail standard false-belief tasks. In the classic version, children have to say where a protagonist will look for an apple that, unbeknownst to her, was moved to a new location. Children under 4 generally predict that the protagonist will look for her apple in its cu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jara-Ettinger, Julian, Rubio-Fernandez, Paula, Gibson, Edward A
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112168
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5912-883X