The role of language in the development of false belief understanding: a training study. Lohmann, H. & Tomasello, M. Child development, 74(4):1130--1144, July, 2003.
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The current study used a training methodology to determine whether different kinds of linguistic interaction play a causal role in children's development of false belief understanding. After 3 training sessions, 3-year-old children improved their false belief understanding both in a training condition involving perspective-shifting discourse about deceptive objects (without mental state terms) and in a condition in which sentential complement syntax was used (without deceptive objects). Children did not improve in a condition in which they were exposed to deceptive objects without accompanying language. Children showed most improvement in a condition using both perspective-shifting discourse and sentential complement syntax, suggesting that each of these types of linguistic experience plays an independent role in the ontogeny of false belief understanding.
@article{lohmann_role_2003,
	title = {The role of language in the development of false belief understanding: a training study},
	volume = {74},
	issn = {0009-3920},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12938709},
	doi = {10.1111/1467-8624.00597},
	abstract = {The current study used a training methodology to determine whether different kinds of linguistic interaction play a causal role in children's development of false belief understanding. After 3 training sessions, 3-year-old children improved their false belief understanding both in a training condition involving perspective-shifting discourse about deceptive objects (without mental state terms) and in a condition in which sentential complement syntax was used (without deceptive objects). Children did not improve in a condition in which they were exposed to deceptive objects without accompanying language. Children showed most improvement in a condition using both perspective-shifting discourse and sentential complement syntax, suggesting that each of these types of linguistic experience plays an independent role in the ontogeny of false belief understanding.},
	language = {en},
	number = {4},
	journal = {Child development},
	author = {Lohmann, Heidemarie and Tomasello, Michael},
	month = jul,
	year = {2003},
	pmid = {12938709},
	keywords = {Language \&amp, Mental Health/Bias: Mind, Pain},
	pages = {1130--1144}
}

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