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References from How young children learn mental state words: Decision processes and links to theory of mind. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
Infants parse dynamic action
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Children extract a new linguistic rule more quickly than adults
10.1111/desc.13498 · 2024 · External reference
Visual statistical learning in the newborn infant
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10.1111/cdev.12682 · 2018 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2007 · External reference
G*power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences
10.3758/bf03193146 · 2007 · External reference
No childhood advantage in the acquisition of skill in using an artificial language rule
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Syntactic bootstrapping
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10.1111/tops.12447 · 2019 · External reference
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Adults show initial advantages over children in learning difficult nonnative speech sounds
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Executive function in preschoolers: A review using an integrative framework
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Learning from their own actions: The unique effect of producing actions on infants' action understanding
10.1111/cdev.12115 · 2014 · External reference
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Hard words
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How toddlers begin to learn verbs
10.1016/j.tics.2008.07.003 · 2008 · External reference
Why the child's theory of mind really is a theory
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Reconstructing constructivism: Causal models, Bayesian learning mechanisms, and the theory theory
10.1037/a0028044 · 2012 · External reference
Sample size and its evolution in research
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Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping
10.1017/s0305000922000605 · 2022 · External reference
Children's attitude problems: Bootstrapping verb meaning from syntax and pragmatics
10.1111/mila.12192 · 2019 · External reference
From simulation to folk psychology: The case for development
10.1111/j.1468-0017.1992.tb00201.x · 1992 · External reference
Vocabulary size and depth of word knowledge in adult-onset second language acquisition
10.1111/j.1473-4192.2010.00265.x · 2011 · External reference
The weirdest people in the world?
10.1017/s0140525x0999152x · 2010 · External reference
Sensitivity to vocal emotions emerges in newborns at 37 weeks gestational age
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Processing speed in childhood and adolescence: longitudinal models for examining developmental change
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01088.x · 2007 · External reference
Not just quantity but also quality of language: Cross-cultural comparisons of maternal mental state talk in New Zealand, Australia, and China
10.1371/journal.pone.0282480 · 2023 · External reference
Theory of mind development in middle childhood and adolescence: Accuracy and preference for mental-state reasoning
10.1080/15248372.2024.2418631 · 2024 · External reference
Crosslinguistic developmental consistency in toddlers' internal state vocabulary composition: Evidence from four languages
10.1155/2014/575142 · 2014 · External reference
Young children use statistical sampling to infer the preferences of other people
10.1177/0956797610376652 · 2010 · External reference
From the external to the internal: Behavior clarifications facilitate theory of mind (ToM) development in Chinese children
10.1177/0165025414562484 · 2016 · External reference
I don’t want to pick! introspection on uncertainty supports early strategic behavior
10.1111/cdev.12004 · 2012 · External reference
Psychological interpretation of the ex-Gaussian and shifted Wald parameters: A diffusion model analysis
10.3758/pbr.16.5.798 · 2009 · External reference
How words can and cannot be learned by observation
10.1073/pnas.1105040108 · 2011 · External reference
Language and theory of mind: Meta-analysis of the relation between language ability and false-belief understanding
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01018.x · 2007 · External reference
Frequent frames a cue for grammatical categories in child directed speech
10.1016/s0010-0277(03)00140-9 · 2003 · External reference
Imitation of intentional actions and internal state language in infancy predict preschool theory of mind skills
10.1080/17405620601046931 · 2007 · External reference
When we think about thinking: The acquisition of belief verbs
10.1016/j.cognition.2006.09.008 · 2007 · External reference
Acquisition of mental state language in Spanish children: A longitudinal study of the relationship between the production of mental verbs and linguistic development
10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00691.x · 2008 · External reference
Costs of selective attention: When children notice what adults miss
10.1177/0956797617693005 · 2017 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2016 · External reference
The diffusion decision model: Theory and data for two-choice decision tasks
10.1162/neco.2008.12-06-420 · 2008 · External reference
Affect and decision making: Insights and predictions from computational models
10.1016/j.tics.2019.04.005 · 2019 · External reference
To belief or not belief: Children's theory of mind
10.1016/j.dr.2014.04.001 · 2014 · External reference
Belief it or not: How children construct a theory of mind
10.1111/cdep.12483 · 2023 · External reference
Exposure to behavioral regularities in everyday life predicts infants' acquisition of mental state vocabulary
10.1111/desc.13343 · 2023 · External reference
Does eye gaze indicate implicit knowledge of false belief? Charting transitions in knowledge
10.1006/jecp.2001.2633 · 2001 · External reference
Exposure to repeated behaviors in everyday life and pattern recognition ability predict preschoolers' subsequent theory of mind
10.1016/j.cogdev.2026.101686 · 2026 · External reference
Use of a head camera to examine maternal input and its relation to 10- to 26-month-olds' acquisition of mental and non-mental state vocabulary
10.1017/s0305000920000240 · 2020 · External reference
Variety in parental use of “want” relates to subsequent growth in children's theory of mind
10.1037/dev0000459 · 2018 · External reference
The relation between children's and mothers' mental state language and theory-of-mind understanding
10.1111/1467-8624.00435 · 2002 · External reference
Pibodi tupian cihui ceyan xiudingban (PPVT-R) Shanghai shiqu shiyong changmo de xiuding [Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test–Revised (PPVT-R): The revised norm of Shanghai]
10.16719/j.cnki.1671-6981.1990.05.004 · 1990 · External reference
How do children learn novel emotion words? A study of emotion concept acquisition in preschoolers
10.1037/xge0000727 · 2019 · External reference
Cross-situational learning: An experimental study of word-learning mechanisms
10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01158.x · 2011 · External reference
Infants rapidly learn word-referent mappings via cross-situational statistics
10.1016/j.cognition.2007.06.010 · 2008 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2000 · External reference
10.7551/mitpress/7185.003.0012
10.7551/mitpress/7185.003.0012 · 2004 · External reference
Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions
10.1016/j.cognition.2004.07.004 · 2005 · External reference
More hard words: Learning emotion and mental state adjectives from linguistic context
10.1080/10489223.2024.2329071 · 2024 · External reference
Acquisition of mental state language in mandarin- and cantonese-speaking children
10.1037/0012-1649.36.1.25 · 2000 · External reference
Mother and infant talk about mental states relates to desire language and emotion understanding
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00882.x · 2006 · External reference
Explicit and implicit theory of mind and social competence: A social information processing framework
10.1016/j.newideapsych.2021.100915 · 2022 · External reference
Evidence of developmental differences in implicit sequence learning: An fmri study of children and adults
10.1162/0898929042304688 · 2004 · External reference
A diffusion decision model analysis of evidence variability in the lexical decision task
10.3758/s13423-017-1259-y · 2017 · External reference
Caution follows fear: Evidence from hierarchical drift diffusion modelling
10.1037/emo0000342 · 2017 · External reference
The relation between parents' mental state talk and children's social understanding: A meta-analysis
10.1111/sode.12280 · 2018 · External reference
Scaling of theory-of-mind tasks
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00691.x · 2004 · External reference
HDDM: Hierarchical Bayesian estimation of the drift-diffusion model in python
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Infants rationally infer the goals of other people's reaches in the absence of first-person experience with reaching actions
10.1111/desc.13453 · 2024 · External reference
Sensitivity to sampling in Bayesian word learning
10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00590.x · 2007 · External reference
Measures of individual differences in adult theory of mind: A systematic review
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Rapid word learning under uncertainty via cross-situational statistics
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01915.x · 2007 · External reference
Relative insensitivity to samples sizes in judgments of frequency distributions: People are similarly confident in the results from 30 versus 3,000 observations
10.1037/dec0000182 · 2023 · External reference
