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Mind What Mother Says: Narrative Input and Theory of Mind in Typical Children and Those on the Autism Spectrum
- Source :
- Child Development. 78:839-858
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2007.
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Abstract
- In 2 studies mothers read wordless storybooks to their preschool-aged children; narratives were analyzed for mental state language. Children's theory-of-mind understanding (ToM) was concurrently assessed. In Study 1, children's (N=30; M age 3 years 9 months) ToM task performance was significantly correlated with mothers' explanatory, causal, and contrastive talk about cognition, but not with mothers' simple mentions of cognition. In Study 2, the same pattern was found in an older sample of typically developing children (N=24; M age 4 years 7 months), whereas for children on the autism spectrum (N=24; M age 6 years 7.5 months), ToM task performance was uniquely correlated with mothers' explanatory, causal, and contrastive talk about emotions.
- Subjects :
- Male
Education
Developmental psychology
Cognition
Social cognition
Theory of mind
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
Narrative
Autistic Disorder
Child
Language
Narration
medicine.disease
Mother-Child Relations
Social relation
Developmental disorder
Affect
Child, Preschool
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Task analysis
Autism
Female
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14678624 and 00093920
- Volume :
- 78
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Child Development
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a3e6adf479e7435fb2f0ca37d9ba61ed