Type of Credit: Elective
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Number of Students
This course is an advanced introduction of developmental psychology. It covers a range of topics that have been considered central to developmental processes: Methods for studying development, models of typical and atypical development, and different areas of research on cognitive and social development. These topics will be reviewed with in-depth discussion in the class.
能力項目說明
1. Models of development
2. Physical causality
3. Intention reading in infancy
4. Perceptual development
5. Language acquisition
6. Imitation & social learning
7. Theory of mind
8. Executive function
9. Developmental relationships between ToM & EF
10. Neurodevelopmental disorders
教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
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次 Week |
課程主題 Course Theme |
課程內容與指定閱讀 Content and Reading Assignment |
教學活動與作業 Activity and Homework |
學習投入時數 Estimated time devoted to coursework per week |
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課堂講授 Lecture Hours |
課程前後 Preparation Time |
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1 (9/12) |
課程介紹 |
課程內容:介紹課程大綱、授課教師與評量方式 |
教學活動:說明與講授 作業:了解校內相關老師的研究方向與內容 |
3.0 |
4.5 |
2 (9/19) |
Models of development |
課程內容:Theories of developmental psychology 指定閱讀:參閱附件
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教學活動:講授、學生報告及討論 作業:預習與復習指定閱讀 |
3.0 |
4.5 |
3 (9/26) |
Models of development |
課程內容:Theories of developmental psychology 指定閱讀:參閱附件
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教學活動:講授、學生報告及討論 作業:預習與復習指定閱讀 |
3.0 |
4.5 |
4 (10/3) |
Object concepts |
課程內容:Contemporary perspectives on A-not-B error 指定閱讀:參閱附件 |
教學活動:講授、學生報告及討論 作業:預習與復習指定閱讀 |
3.0 |
4.5 |
5 (10/10) |
雙十節(不上課) |
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6 (10/17) |
Object concepts |
課程內容:Contemporary perspectives on A-not-B error 指定閱讀:參閱附件 |
教學活動:講授、學生報告及討論 作業:預習與復習指定閱讀 |
3.0 |
4.5 |
7 (10/24) |
Intention reading |
課程內容:How do infants learn about others' minds? 指定閱讀:參閱附件 |
教學活動:講授、學生報告及討論 作業:預習與復習指定閱讀 |
3.0 |
4.5 |
8 (10/31) |
Intention reading |
課程內容:Goal attribution in infancy 指定閱讀:參閱附件 |
教學活動:講授、學生報告及討論 作業:預習與復習指定閱讀 |
3.0 |
4.5 |
9 (11/7) |
期中考 | ||||
10 (11/14) |
Social learning in contexts |
課程內容:Developmental perspectives on social learning 指定閱讀:參閱附件 |
教學活動:講授、學生報告及討論 作業:預習與復習指定閱讀 |
3.0 |
4.5 |
11 (11/21) |
Social learning in contexts |
課程內容:Comparative perspectives on social learning 指定閱讀:參閱附件 |
教學活動:講授、學生報告及討論 作業:預習與復習指定閱讀 |
3.0 |
4.5 |
12 (11/28) |
Theory of mind |
課程內容:Theories of developing a theory of mind 指定閱讀:參閱附件 |
教學活動:講授、學生報告及討論 作業:預習與復習指定閱讀 |
3.0 |
4.5 |
13 (12/5) |
Executive function |
課程內容:Theories of developing executive function 指定閱讀:參閱附件 |
教學活動:講授、學生報告及討論 作業:預習與復習指定閱讀 |
3.0 |
4.5 |
14 (12/12) |
Theory of mind and Executive function |
課程內容:Theories of developing executive function 指定閱讀:參閱附件
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教學活動:講授、學生報告及討論 作業:預習與復習指定閱讀 |
3.0 |
4.5 |
15 (12/19) |
Social cognition in adolescence |
課程內容:Theories of developing executive function 指定閱讀:參閱附件 |
教學活動:講授、學生報告及討論 作業:預習與復習指定閱讀 |
3.0 |
4.5 |
16 (12/26) |
彈性補充教學週 |
課後作業:完成期末主題報告作品。 |
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17 (1/2) |
期末報告一 |
課程內容:學生報告與討論 指定閱讀:學生報告主題之相關論文 |
教學活動:學生報告及討論 作業:預習與復習相關論文 |
3.0 |
4.5 |
18 (1/9) |
期末報告二 |
課程內容:學生報告與討論 指定閱讀:學生報告主題之相關論文 |
教學活動:學生報告及討論 作業:預習與復習相關論文 |
3.0 |
4.5 |
In-class performance: 30%; Essay questions: 20%; final report: 50% (at least 4000 words & 10 citations).
Bjorklund, D. (2018). Children`s thinking: Cognitive development and individual differences (6th edition). Wadsworth.
認知發展:好學的大腦(黃啟泰審譯)。雙葉書廊。
Goswami, U. (2020). Cognitive development: The learning brain. Psychology Press.
Heyes, C. (2018).Cognitive Gadgets: The cultural evolution of thinking. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
In-class paper
1. Models of development
Heyes, C. M. (2003). Four routes of cognitive evolution. Psychological Review, 110(4), 713–727.Heyes, C. M. (in press). Précis of Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
1.1. Piagetian paradigm
Bjorklund, D. (2005). Piaget and the Neo-Piagetians. In D. Bjorklund, Children’s thinking (pp.79-117). Wadsworth.
Sigler, R. (2005). Piaget’s theory of development. In R. Sigler, Children’s thinking (pp.26-64). Pearson.
Smith, L. (2002). Piaget’s model. In U. Goswami (Ed.), Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development (pp. 515-537). Oxford: Blackwell.
1.2. Information processing model
Bjorklund, D. (2005). Information processing approaches. In D. Bjorklund, Children’s Thinking (pp.123-138; 142-145). Wadsworth.
Kail, R. (1997). Processing time, imagery, and spatial memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 64, 67-78.
Lorsbach, T. & Reimer, J. (1997). Developmental changes in the inhibition of previously relevant information, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 64, 317-342.
Courage, M. L., & Howe, M. L. (2001). Long-term retention in 3.5-month-olds: familiarization time and individual differences in attentional style. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 79, 271-293.
Courage, M. L., Howe, M. L., & Squires, S. E. (2004). Individual differences in 3.5-month-olds’ visual attention: what do they predict at 1 year? Infant Behavior and Development, 27, 19-30.
1.3. Strategy choice (cognitive evolution) model
Siegler, R., & Alibali, M. (2005). Theories of cognitive evolution. In R. Siegler & M. Alibali, Children’s Thinking (pp.97-104; 384-389; 403-409). Prentice Hall.
Siegler, R. S., & Crowley, K. (1991). The microgenetic method: A direct means for studying cognitive development. American Psychologist, 46, 606-620.
Siegler, R. S., & Lemaire, P. (1997). Older and younger adults` strategy choices in multiplication: Testing predictions of ASCM via the choice/no choice method. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 126, 71-92.
Siegler, R. S., & Booth, J. L. (2004). Development of numerical estimation in young children. Child Development, 75, 428-444.
1.4.Dynamic system approach
Bjorklund, D. (2005). Dynamic system approach. In D. Bjorklund, Children’s Thinking (pp.14-17). Wadsworth.
Smith, L., & Thelen, E. (2003). Development as a dynamic system. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 343-348.
Siegler, R. S., & Stern, E. (2002). A microgenetic/cross-sectional study of matrix completion: comparing short-term and long-term change. Child Development, 73, 793-809.
Galloway, J., & Thelen, E. (2004). Feet first: Object exploration in young infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 27, 107-112.
Spencer, J. P., Smith, L., & Thelen, E. (2001). Tests of a dynamic systems account of the A-not-B error: The influence of prior experience on the spatial memory abilities of two-year-olds. Child Development, 72, 1327-1346.
2. The concepts of goal and intention in infancy
Tomasello, M., & Carpenter, M. (2007). Shared intentionality. Developmental Science, 10, 121–125.
Csibra, G. (2003). Teleological and referential understanding of action in infancy. Philosophic Transactions of the Royal Society, 358, 447-458.
Gergely, G., & Csibra, G. (2006). Sylvia’s recipe: The role of imitation and pedagogy in the transmission of cultural knowledge. In S. Levenson & N. Enfield (Eds.), Roots of human sociality: Culture, cognition, and human interaction (pp. 229–255). Oxford, England: Berg.
Baldwin, D. A., Baird, J. A., Saylor, M. M., & Clark, M. A. (2001). Infants parse dynamic action. Child Development, 72, 708-717.
Behne, T., Carpenter, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2005). Unwilling versus unable: Infants’ understanding of intentional action. Developmental Psychology, 41, 328-337.
Buresh, J. S., & Woodward, A. L. (2007). Infants track action goals within and across agents. Cognition, 104, 287-314.
Falck-Ytter, T., Gredeback, G., & Hofsten, C. von. (2006). Infants predict other people’s action goals. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 878-879.
Kochukhova, O., & Gredebäck, G. (2010). Preverbal infants anticipate that food will be brought to the mouth: An eye tracking study of manual feeding and flying spoons. Child Development, 81, 1729-1738.
Gredebäck, G., Stasiewicz, D., Falck-Ytter, T., Rosander, K., & von Hofsten, C. (2009). Action type and goal type modulate goaldirected gaze shifts in 14-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 45, 1190–1194.
Meltzoff, A. N. (1995). Understanding the intentions of others: Re-enactment of intended acts by 18-month-old children. Developmental Psychology, 31, 838-850.
Repacholi, B. W. (1998). Infants’ use of attentional cues to identify the referent of another person’s emotional expression. Developmental Psychology, 34, 1017-1025.
Sakkalou, E. and Gattis, M. L. (2012). Infants infer intentions from prosody. Cognitive Development, 27, 1-16.
Woodward, A. L. (1998). Infants selectively encode the goal object of an actor’s reach. Cognition, 69, 1-34.
Woodward, A. L. (1999). Infants’ ability to distinguish between purposeful and non-purposeful behaviors. Infant Behavior and Development, 22, 145-160.
Woodward, A. L., & Guajardo, J. J. (2002). Infants’ understanding of the point gesture as an object-directed action. Cognitive Development, 17, 1061-1084.
Woodward, A. L., & Sommerville, J. (2000). Twelve-month-old infants interpret action in context. Psychological Science, 11, 73-77.
Biro, S., Csibra, G., & Gergely, G. (2007). The role of behavioral cues in understanding goal-directed action in infancy. In C. von. Hofsten & K. Rosander (Eds.), Progress in Brain Research, Vol.164 (pp. 303-322). Elsevier.
Biro, A., & Leslie, A. (2007). Infants’ perception of goal-directed actions: Development through cue-based bootstrapping. Developmental Science, 10, 379-398.
Csibra, G. (2008). Goal attribution to inanimate agents by 6.5-month-old infants. Cognition, 107, 705-717.
Hofer, T., Hauf, P., & Aschersleben, G. (2005). Infants’ perception of goal-directed actions performed by a mechanical device. Infant Behavior and Development, 28, 466-480.
Gergely, G., Csibra, G., Nadasdy, Z., & Biro, S. (1995). Taking the intentional stance at 12 months of age. Cognition, 56, 165-193.
Kiraly, I., Jovanovic, B., Prinz, W., Aschersleben, G., & Gergely, G. (2003). The early origins of goal attribution in infancy. Consciousness and Cognition, 12, 752-769.
Kuhlmeier, V., Wynn, K., & Bloom, P. (2003). Attribution of dispositional states by 12-month-olds. Psychological Science, 14, 402-408.
3. Perception-action relationships in development
Kanakogi, Y., & Itakura, S. (2010). The link between perception and action in early infancy: From the viewpoint of the direct matching hypothesis. Japanese Psychological Research, 52, 121–131.
Daum, M. M., Prinz, W., & Aschersleben, G. (2011). Perception and production of object-related grasping in 6-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108, 810–818.
Gerson, S., & Woodward, A. (2012). A claw is like my hand: Comparison supports goal analysis in infants. Cognition, 122, 181-192.
Gerson, S., & Woodward, A. (2014). Learning from their own actions: The unique effect of producing actions on infants’ action understanding. Child Development, 85, 264-277.
Sommverville, J. A., Woodward, A. L., & Needham, A. (2005). Action experience alters 3-month-old infants’ perception of others’ actions. Cognition, 96, B1-B11.
Sommerville, J. A., Hildebrand, E. A., & Crane, C. C. (2008). Experience matters: The impact of doing versus watching on infants’ subsequent perception of tool use events. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1249–1256.
Woodward, A.L., & Gerson, S.A. (2014). Mirroring and the development of action understanding. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 369, 20130181.
Krogh-Jespersen, S. & Woodward, A. L. (2018). Reaching the goal: Active experience facilitates 8-month-old infants’ prospective analysis of goal-based actions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 171, 31-45.
Paulus, M., Hunnius, S., van Wijngaarden, C., Vrins, S., van Rooij, I., & Bekkering, H. (2011). The role of frequency information and teleological reasoning in infants' and adults' action prediction. Developmental psychology, 47(4), 976-983.
Green, D., Li, Q., Lockman, J. J., & Gredebäck, G. (2016). Culture influences action understanding in infancy: A comparative study of action prediction in Chinese and Swedish infants. Child Development, 87, 736–746.
Bushnell, E. W., & Boudreau, J. P. (1998). Exploring and exploiting objects with the hands during infancy. In K. J. Connolly (Ed.), The Psychology of the Hand (pp.144-161). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Social learning in contexts
Carpenter, M., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2002). Understanding “prior intentions” enables 2-year- olds to imitatively learn a complex task. Child Development, 73, 1431-1441.
Chen, M. L., & Waxman, S. R. (2013). “Shall we blick?”: Novel words highlight actors’ underlying intentions for 14-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 49, 426-431.
Flynn, E., & Whiten, A. (2008). Imitation of hierarchical structure versus component details of complex actions by 3- and 5-year-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 101, 228-240.
Flynn, E. G. & Whiten, A. (2013). Dissecting children's observational learning of complex actions through selective video displays. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116, 247-263.
Hamlin, J. K., Hallinan, E. V., & Woodward, A. L. (2008). Do as I do: 7-month-old infants selectively reproduce others’ goals. Developmental Science, 11, 487-494.
Horner, V., & Whiten, A. (2005). Causal knowledge and imitation/emulation switching in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens). Animal Cognition, 8, 164-181.
Hopper, L. M., Lambeth, S. P., Schapiro, S. J. & Whiten, A. (2015). The importance of witnessed agency in chimpanzee social learning of tool use. Behavioural Processes, 112, 120-129.
Huang, C. (2013). Contexts of a person’s prior intention facilitate observational learning in 2.5-year-old children. Cognitive Development, 28, 374-385.
Király, I., Csibra, G., & Gergely, G. (2013). Beyond rational imitation: Learning arbitrary means actions from communicative demonstrations. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116, 471-486.
Nielsen, M. (2006). Copying actions and copying outcomes: Social learning through the second year. Developmental Psychology, 42, 555-565.
Nielsen, M., Simcock, G., & Jenkins, L. (2008). The effect of social engagement on 24-months-olds’ imitation from live and televised models. Developmental Science, 11, 722-731.
Nielsen, M., & Blank, C. (2011). Imitation in young children: when who gets copied is more important than what gets copied. Developmental Pschology, 47, 1050–1053.
Paulus, M., Hunnius, S., Vissers, M., & Bekkering, H. (2011). Imitation in infancy: Rational or motor resonance? Child Development, 82, 1047–1057.
Schwier, C., van Maanen, C., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2006). Rational imitation in 12-month-old infants. Infancy, 10, 303-311.
Williamson, R. A., & Markman, E. M. (2006). Precision of imitation as a function of preschoolers’ understanding of the goal of the demonstration. Developmental Psychology, 42, 723–731.
Clegg, J. M., & Legare, C. H. (2016). Instrumental and conventional interpretations of behavior are associated with distinct behavioral outcomes in early childhood. Child Development, 87, 527-542.
Legare, C.H., Wen, N.J., Herrmann, P.A., & Whitehouse, H. (2015). Imitative flexibility and the development of cultural learning. Cognition, 142, 351-361.
Thompson, D., & Russell, J. (2004). The Ghost condition: Imitation versus emulation in young children’s observational learning. Developmental Psychology, 40, 882-889.
5. Theory of mind
Apperly, I.A. (2012). What is “theory of mind”? Concepts, cognitive processes and individual differences. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 825-839.
Apperly, I.A. (2013). Can theory of mind grow up? Mindreading in adults, and its implications for the neuroscience and development of mindreading. In S. Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg, & M. Lombardo (Eds.), Understanding Other Minds (3rd ed.)
Astington, J. W., & Jenkins, J. M. (1999). A longitudinal study of the relation between language and theory-of-mind development. Developmental Psychology, 35, 1311-1320.
Bianco, F., Lecce, S., & Banerjee, R. (2016). Conversations about mental states and theory of mind development during middle childhood: A training study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 149, 41-61.
Devine, R. T., & Hughes, C. (2016). Measuring theory of mind across middle childhood: Reliability and validity of the Silent Films and Strange Stories tasks. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 149, 23-40.
Hale, C. M., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2003). The influence of language on theory of mind: a training study. Developmental Science, 6, 346-359.
Kiraly, I., Olah, K., Csibra, G., & Kovacs, A. M. (2018). Retrospective attribution of false beliefs in 3-year-old children. PNAS, 115, 11477-11482.
Kovács, Á.M., Téglás, E. & Endress, A.D. (2010). The social sense: susceptibility to others' beliefs in human infants and adults. Science, 330(6012), 1830-1834.
Lu, H., Su, Y., & Wang, Q. (2008). Talking about others facilitates theory of mind in Chinese preschoolers. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1726-1736.
Meristo, M., Falkman, K. W., & Tedoldi, M. (2007). Language access and theory of mind reasoning: Evidence from deaf children in bilingual and oralist environments. Developmental Psychology, 43, 1156-1169.
Onishi, K. H., & Baillargeon, R. (2005). Do 15-month-old infants understand false beliefs? Science, 308, 255-258.
Rizzo, M. T., & Killen, M. (2018). How social status influences our understanding of others' mental states. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 169, 30-41.
Rizzo, M. T., & Killen, M. (2018). Theory of mind is related to children’s resource allocations in gender stereotypic contexts. Developmental Psychology, 54, 510-520.
Southgate, V., Senju, A., & Csibra, G. (2007). Action anticipation through attribution of false belief by 2-year-olds. Psychological Science, 18, 587-592.
Song, H.-J., Baillargeon, R., & Fisher, C. (2005). Can infants attribute to an agent a disposition to perform a particular action? Cognition, 98, B45-B55.
6.Executive function
Carlson, S. M., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2008). Bilingual experience and executive functioning in young children. Developmental Science, 11, 282-298.
Cepeda, N. J., Blackwell, K. A., & Munakata, Y. (2013). Speed isn’t everything: Complex processing speed measures mask individual differences and developmental changes in executive control. Developmental Science, 16, 269-286.
Diamond, A., Barnett, W. S., Thomas, J., & Munro, S. (2007). Preschool program improves cognitive control. Science, 318, 1387-1388.
Noble, K. G., Norman, M. F., & Farah, M. J. (2005). Neurocognitive correlates of socioeconomic status in kindergarten children. Developmental Science, 8, 74-87.
Evans, G. W., & Schamberg, M. A. (2009). Childhood poverty, chronic stress, and adult working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (16), 6545-6549.
Garon, N., Bryson, S, E., & Smith, I. M. (2008). Executive function in preschoolers: a review using an integrative framework. Psychological Bulletin, 134, 31-60.
Hongwanishkul, D., Happaney, K. R., Lee, W. S. C., & Zelazo, P. D. (2005). Assessment of hot and cool executive function in young children: Age-related changes and individual differences. Developmental Neuropsychology, 28, 617-644.
Hughes, C., & Ensor, R. (2008). Does executive function matter for preschoolers’ problem behaviors? Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 1-14.
Zelazo, P. D. (2006). The dimensional change card sort (DCCS): A method of assessing executive function in children. Nature Protocols, 1, 297-301.
Jacques, S., Zelazo, P. D., Kirkham, N. Z., & Semcesen, T. K. (1999). Rule selection versus rule execution in preschoolers: An error-detection approach. Developmental Psychology, 35, 770-780.
Honomichl, R. D., & Chen, Z. (2011). Relations as rules: The role of attention in the dimensional change card sort task. Developmental Psychology, 47, 50-60.
Kirkham, N., Cruess, L., & Diamnond, A. (2003). Helping children apply their knowledge to their behavior on a dimension-switching task. Developmental Science, 6, 449-476.
Yerys, B. E., & Munakata, Y. (2006). When labels hurt but novelty helps: Children’s perseveration and flexibility in a card-sorting task. Child Development, 77, 15891607.
Muller, U., Dick, A., Gela, K., Overton, W., & Zelzao, P. (2006). The role of negative priming in preschoolers’ flexible rule use on the dimensional change card sort task. Child Development, 77, 395-412.
White, R. E., & Carlson, S. M. (2016). What would Batman do? Self‐distancing improves executive function in young children. Developmental Science, 19(3), 419–426.
White, R. E., Prager, E. O., Schaefer, C., Kross, E., Duckworth, A. L., & Carlson, S. M. (2017). The “Batman Effect”: Improving perseverance in young children. Child Development, 88(5), 1563–1571.
Gaither, S. E., Fan, S. P., & Kinzler, K. D. (in press). Thinking about multiple identities boosts children’s flexible thinking. Developmental Science.
Snyder, H. R., & Munakata, Y. (2013). So many options, so little control: Abstract representations can reduce selection demands to increase children's self-directed flexibility. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116, 659-673.
7. Theory of mind and executive function
Carlson, S. M., Mandell, D. J., & Williams, L. (2004). Executive function and theory of mind: Stability and prediction from ages 2 to 3. Developmental Psychology, 40, 1105-1122.
Hughes, C., & Ensor, R. (2007). Executive function and theory of mind: Predictive relations from ages 2 to 4. Developmental Psychology, 43, 1447-1459.
Sabbagh, M. A., Xu, F., Carlson, S. M., Moses, L. J., & Lee, K. (2006). The development of executive functioning and theory of mind: A comparison of Chinese and U. S. Preschoolers. Psychological Science, 17, 74-81.
Wang, Z., Devine, R. T., Wong, K. K., & Hughes, C. (2016). Theory of mind and executive function during middle childhood across cultures, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 149, 6-22.
Devine, R. T., White, N., Ensor, R., & Hughes, C. (2016). Theory of mind in middle childhood: Longitudinal associations with executive function and social competence. Developmental Psychology, 52, 758-771
Kloo, D., & Perner, J. (2003). Training transfer between card sorting and false belief understanding: Helping children apply conflicting descriptions. Child Development, 74, 1823-1839.
Perner, J., Lang, B., & Kloo, D. (2002). Theory of mind and self-control: More than a common problem of inhibition. Child Development, 73, 752-767.
Munakata, Y., Snyder, H. R., & Chatham, C.H. (2012). Developing cognitive control: Three key transitions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 71-77.
Bradford, E. E. F., Jentzsch, I., & Gomez, J.-C. (2015). From self to social cognition: Theory of Mind mechanisms and their relation to Executive Functioning. Cognition, 138, 21-34,
8. Neurodevelopmental disorders
Dawson, G., Carver, L., Meltzoff, A.N., Panagiotides, H., & McPartland, J. (2002). Neural correlates of face recognition in young children with autism spectrum disorder, developmental delay, and typical development. Child Development, 73, 700-717.
Dawson, G., Munson, J., Estes, A., Osterling, J., McPartland, J., Toth, K., Carver, L., Abbot, R. (2002). Neurocognitive function and joint attention ability in young children with autism spectrum disorder. Child Development, 73, 345-358.
Dawson, G., Toth, K., Abbot, R., Osterling, J., Munson, J., Estes, A., & Liaw, J. (2004). Early social attention impairments in autism: Social orienting, joint attention, and attention to distress. Developmental Psychology, 40, 271-283.
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9. Children’s understanding of humanoid robots
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10. Learning from 3C devices
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