Theory of mind and rule-based reasoning

Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?

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Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception

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Pretense and representation: The origins of "theory of mind."

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Understanding the Representational Mind

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Executive function deficits in high-functioning autistic individuals: Relationship to theory of mind

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Developing theories of mind

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Children's Minds

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Three-year-olds’ difficulty with false belief: The case for a conceptual deficit

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Children's Understanding of Representational Change and Its Relation to the Understanding of False Belief and the Appearance-Reality Distinction

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Intellectual development : birth to adulthood

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Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes

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Children's understanding of representational change and its relation to the understanding of false belief and the appearance-reality distinction

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How we know our minds: The illusion of first-person knowledge of intentionality

Alison Gopnik, C. (1993) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x00028636 · Cited by 968 · see citing works

Mechanical, behavioural and Intentional understanding of picture stories in autistic children

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The work of the imagination

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Development of the appearance-reality distinction

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Understanding the representational mind

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Development of Knowledge about the Appearance-Reality Distinction

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The ‘windows task’ as a measure of strategic deception in preschoolers and autistic subjects

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REASONING AND A SENSE OF REALITY

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Pretend Play Skills and the Child's Theory of Mind

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Children's Theories of Mind

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Early Understanding of Mental Entities: A Reexamination of Childhood Realism

Wellman, H. M., & Estes, D. (1986) · Child Development · doi:10.2307/1130367 · Cited by 367 · see citing works

Young Children's Understanding of Fact Beliefs versus Value Beliefs

Flavell, J. H., Flavell, E. R., Green, F. L., & Moses, L. J. (1990) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1990.tb02831.x · Cited by 321 · see citing works

Children's Understanding of the Modal Expression of Speaker Certainty and Uncertainty and Its Relation to the Development of a Representational Theory of Mind

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Nature-Nurture and the Two Realms of Development: A Proposed Integration with Respect to Mental Development

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Young children's knowledge about the apparent-real and pretend-real distinctions.

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Against the Cartesian view on mind: Young children's difficulty with own false beliefs

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Children's Understanding of the Distinction between Real and Apparent Emotion

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Children's Understanding of the Distinction between Real and Apparent Emotion

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Children's Understanding of the Modal Expression of Speaker Certainty and Uncertainty and Its Relation to the Development of a Representational Theory of Mind

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Young Children's Conceptualization of Pretense: Action or Mental Representational State?

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Theory of Mind and Rule Use in Individuals With Down's Syndrome: A Test of the Uniqueness and Specificity Claims

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Preschool Children's Assumptions about Cause and Effect: Temporal Ordering

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Response control and the execution of verbal rules.

Zelazo, P. D., Reznick, J. S., & Piñon, D. E. (1995) · Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1037/0012-1649.31.3.508 · Cited by 128 · see citing works

Developmental changes in young children's knowledge about the mind

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Age-Related Asynchrony of Knowledge and Action

Zelazo, P. D., & Reznick, J. S. (1991) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1991.tb01565.x · Cited by 121 · see citing works

Preschoolers' Understanding of Simple Object Transformations

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Causal processing: Origins and development.

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Role taking and social competence in autism and mental retardation

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Inference and action in early causal reasoning.

Frye, D. A., Zelazo, P. D., Brooks, P. J., & Samuels, M. C. (1996) · Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1037/0012-1649.32.1.120 · Cited by 80 · see citing works

Cognitive Complexity and Control

Zelazo, P. D., & Frye, D. A. (1997) · Advances in consciousness research · doi:10.1075/aicr.12.07zel · Cited by 74 · see citing works

Children’s Theory of Mind: Understanding of Desire, Belief and Emotion with Social Referents

Nguyen, L., & Frye, D. A. (1999) · Social Development · doi:10.1111/1467-9507.00081 · Cited by 69 · see citing works

Young Children's Causal Inferences

Gupta, P. D., & Bryant, P. (1989) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1989.tb03545.x · Cited by 58 · see citing works

Can children be trained in making the distinction between appearance and reality?

Taylor, M., & Hort, B. E. (1990) · Cognitive Development · doi:10.1016/0885-2014(90)90014-k · Cited by 42 · see citing works

What mental retardation teaches us about typical development: The examples of sequences, rates, and cross-domain relations

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Preschool children's understanding of causal connections

Bullock, M. (1984) · British Journal of Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1111/j.2044-835x.1984.tb00777.x · Cited by 24 · see citing works

Meta-Analysis of Theory-of-Mind Development: The Truth about False Belief

Wellman, H. M., Cross, D., & Watson, J. (2001) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00304 · Cited by 4,476 · see citing works

Executive functions and developmental psychopathology.

Pennington, B. F., & Ozonoff, S. (1996) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1996.tb01380.x · Cited by 3,150 · see citing works

Executive function in preschoolers: A review using an integrative framework.

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Individual Differences in Inhibitory Control and Children's Theory of Mind

Carlson, S. M., & Moses, L. J. (2001) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00333 · Cited by 2,072 · see citing works

Developmentally Sensitive Measures of Executive Function in Preschool Children

Carlson, S. M. (2005) · Developmental Neuropsychology · doi:10.1207/s15326942dn2802_3 · Cited by 1,638 · see citing works

The Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS): A method of assessing executive function in children

Zelazo, P. D. (2006) · Nature Protocols · doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.46 · Cited by 1,579 · see citing works

Simulating Minds

Goldman, A. I. (2006) · doi:10.1093/0195138929.001.0001 · Cited by 1,490 · see citing works

Language and Theory of Mind: Meta-Analysis of the Relation Between Language Ability and False-belief Understanding

Milligan, K., Astington, J. W., & Dack, L. A. (2007) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01018.x · Cited by 1,248 · see citing works

Bilingual experience and executive functioning in young children

Carlson, S. M., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2008) · Developmental Science · doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00675.x · Cited by 1,052 · see citing works

Shared representations between self and other: a social cognitive neuroscience view

Decety, J., & Sommerville, J. A. (2003) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2003.10.004 · Cited by 996 · see citing works

Attention and inhibition in bilingual children: evidence from the dimensional change card sort task

Bialystok, E., & Martin, M. M. (2004) · Developmental Science · doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00351.x · Cited by 970 · see citing works

Processing capacity defined by relational complexity: Implications for comparative, developmental, and cognitive psychology

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Cognitive complexity and attentional control in the bilingual mind

Bialystok, E. (1999) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00046 · Cited by 878 · see citing works

Evaluating the theory of executive dysfunction in autism

Hill, E. L. (2004) · Developmental Review · doi:10.1016/j.dr.2004.01.001 · Cited by 846 · see citing works

How specific is the relation between executive function and theory of mind? Contributions of inhibitory control and working memory

Carlson, S. M., Moses, L. J., & Breton, C. (2002) · Infant and Child Development · doi:10.1002/icd.298 · Cited by 838 · see citing works

II. NIH TOOLBOX COGNITION BATTERY (CB): MEASURING EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND ATTENTION

Zelazo, P. D., Anderson, J. E., Richler, J., Wallner-Allen, K., Beaumont, J. L., & Weintraub, S. (2013) · Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · doi:10.1111/mono.12032 · Cited by 823 · see citing works

Executive Function in Typical and Atypical Development

Zelazo, P. D., & Müller, U. (2010) · The Wiley‐Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development · doi:10.1002/9781444325485.ch22 · Cited by 784 · see citing works

Early Development of Executive Function: A Problem-Solving Framework

Zelazo, P. D., Carter, A. S., Reznick, J. S., & Frye, D. A. (1997) · Review of General Psychology · doi:10.1037/1089-2680.1.2.198 · Cited by 758 · see citing works

The Development of Executive Functioning and Theory of Mind

Sabbagh, M. A., Xu, F., Carlson, S. M., Moses, L. J., & Lee, K. (2005) · Psychological Science · doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01667.x · Cited by 743 · see citing works

An age-related dissociation between knowing rules and using them

Zelazo, P. D., Frye, D., & Rapus, T. (1996) · Cognitive Development · doi:10.1016/s0885-2014(96)90027-1 · Cited by 728 · see citing works

Executive functions and school readiness intervention: Impact, moderation, and mediation in the head start REDI program.

Bierman, K. L., Nix, R. L., Greenberg, M. T., Blair, C., & Domitrovich, C. E. (2008) · Development and Psychopathology · doi:10.1017/s0954579408000394 · Cited by 720 · see citing works

Neurocognitive correlates of socioeconomic status in kindergarten children

Noble, K. G., Norman, M. F., & Farah, M. J. (2005) · Developmental Science · doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.00394.x · Cited by 1,038 · see citing works

Impacts of a prekindergarten program on children's mathematics, language, literacy, executive function, and emotional skills

Weiland, C., & Yoshikawa, H. (2013) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/cdev.12099 · Cited by 701 · see citing works

Executive function and theory of mind: Stability and prediction from ages 2 to 3.

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Assessment of Hot and Cool Executive Function in Young Children: Age-Related Changes and Individual Differences

Hongwanishkul, D., Happaney, K. R., Lee, W. S. C., & Zelazo, P. D. (2005) · Developmental Neuropsychology · doi:10.1207/s15326942dn2802_4 · Cited by 654 · see citing works

Development of theory of mind and executive control

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Individual differences in executive functioning and theory of mind: an investigation of inhibitory control and planning ability

Carlson, S. M., Moses, L. J., & Claxton, L. J. (2004) · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2004.01.002 · Cited by 614 · see citing works

Executive function across the life span

Zelazo, P. D., Craik, F. I. M., & Booth, L. (2004) · Acta Psychologica · doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2003.12.005 · Cited by 586 · see citing works

Exploring the nature of cognitive flexibility

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The development of cognitive skills and gains in academic school readiness for children from low-income families.

Welsh, J. A., Nix, R. L., Blair, C., Bierman, K. L., & Nelson, K. E. (2010) · Journal of Educational Psychology · doi:10.1037/a0016738 · Cited by 775 · see citing works

Development of “hot” executive function: The children’s gambling task

Kerr, A., & Zelazo, P. D. (2004) · Brain and Cognition · doi:10.1016/s0278-2626(03)00275-6 · Cited by 529 · see citing works

The development of conscious control in childhood

Zelazo, P. D. (2003) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2003.11.001 · Cited by 501 · see citing works

Executive function and theory of mind. Predictive relations from ages 2 to 4

Hughes, C., & Ensor, R. (2007) · Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1037/0012-1649.43.6.1447 · Cited by 453 · see citing works

Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science

Stenning, K., & van Lambalgen, M. (2008) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/7964.001.0001 · Cited by 439 · see citing works

Executive Function and Psychopathology: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective

Zelazo, P. D. (2020) · Annual Review of Clinical Psychology · doi:10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-072319-024242 · Cited by 454 · see citing works

Neural systems involved in 'theory of mind'

Siegal, M., & Varley, R. A. (2002) · Nature reviews. Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nrn844 · Cited by 427 · see citing works

Executive function: Reflection, iterative reprocessing, complexity, and the developing brain

Zelazo, P. D. (2015) · Developmental Review · doi:10.1016/j.dr.2015.07.001 · Cited by 499 · see citing works

Theory of mind development in Chinese children: A meta-analysis of false-belief understanding across cultures and languages

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Executive function and the promotion of social–emotional competence

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A theory of implicit and explicit knowledge

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The Role of Inhibitory Processes in Young Children's Difficulties with Deception and False Belief

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Association of neonatal glycemia with neurodevelopmental outcomes at 4.5 years

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Executive Function and Theory of Mind in 2 Year Olds: A Family Affair?

Hughes, C. H., & Ensor, R. (2005) · Developmental Neuropsychology · doi:10.1207/s15326942dn2802_5 · Cited by 394 · see citing works

Dynamic Assessment in Practice: Clinical and Educational Applications

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Cognitive theories of autism

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Theory of Mind and Self-Control: More than a Common Problem of Inhibition

Perner, J., Lang, B., & Kloo, D. (2002) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00436 · Cited by 379 · see citing works

Longitudinal associations between executive functioning and academic skills across content areas.

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Ontogeny of delay versus trace eyeblink conditioning in the rat

Claflin, D. I., Paczkowski, C. M., & Stanton, M. E. (2000) · Developmental Psychobiology · doi:10.1002/(sici)1098-2302(200003)36:2 · Cited by 71 · see citing works

Signposts to development: theory of mind in deaf children

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Does language dominance affect cognitive performance in bilinguals? Lifespan evidence from preschoolers through older adults on card sorting, Simon, and metalinguistic tasks

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Scaling of Theory-of-Mind Understandings in Chinese Children

Wellman, H. M., Fuxi, F., Liu, D., Zhu, L., & Liu, G. (2006) · Psychological Science · doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01830.x · Cited by 356 · see citing works

The development of executive function in early childhood.

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Links between theory of mind and executive function in young children with autism: Clues to developmental primacy.

Pellicano, E. (2007) · Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1037/0012-1649.43.4.974 · Cited by 352 · see citing works

NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery (CB): Validation of Executive Function Measures in Adults

Zelazo, P. D., Anderson, J. E., Richler, J., Wallner-Allen, K., Beaumont, J. L., Conway, K. P., Gershon, R., & Weintraub, S. (2014) · Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society · doi:10.1017/s1355617714000472 · Cited by 350 · see citing works

Finding your marbles: Does preschoolers' strategic behavior predict later understanding of mind?

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Belief-desire reasoning as a process of selection

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The Flexible Item Selection Task (FIST): A Measure of Executive Function in Preschoolers

Jacques, S., & Zelazo, P. D. (2001) · Developmental Neuropsychology · doi:10.1207/s15326942dn2003_2 · Cited by 332 · see citing works

Cognitive Complexity and Control

Zelazo, P. D., & Frye, D. A. (1998) · Current Directions in Psychological Science · doi:10.1111/1467-8721.ep10774761 · Cited by 330 · see citing works

Bilingual education for young children: review of the effects and consequences

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The Development of Executive Function in Childhood

Cragg, L. (2008) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/7437.003.0041 · Cited by 319 · see citing works

Verbal ability and executive functioning development in preschoolers at head start.

Fuhs, M. W., & Day, J. D. (2010) · Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1037/a0021065 · Cited by 313 · see citing works

Less Is More

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Individual differences in executive function and central coherence predict developmental changes in theory of mind in autism

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Measuring Executive Functions in Childhood: Problems and Solutions?

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Strengthening school readiness for Head Start children: Evaluation of a self-regulation intervention

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The Development of Cognitive Flexibility and Language Abilities

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Sequential Progressions in a Theory-of-Mind Scale: Longitudinal Perspectives

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Précis ofBeyond modularity: A developmental perspective on cognitive science

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