Excitement and controversy have surrounded the effectiveness of Early Intensive Behavioral
Intervention (EIBI) for young children with autism. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to …

The focus of this review is the experimental techniques used to identify forms of social
learning shown by humans and nonhuman animals. Specifically, the 'ghost display'and 'end …

Abstract Objective Theory of Mind (ToM) refers to the ability to understand the subjectivity of
people's intentions, desires, and beliefs. Research shows that ToM in deaf children is …

There is currently a hot debate in the literature regarding whether or not infants have a true
theory of mind (ToM) understanding. According to the mentalistic view, infants possess the …

The study examined whether the pointing gesture and intentional understanding abilities at
12 and 15 months of age predict the later understanding of perception and intention, as well …

Past research has shown that children will copy the actions of adults with high fidelity, even
actions that are obviously causally irrelevant to the modelled outcome. However, this …

It has been suggested that infants' performance on the false belief task can be explained by
the use of behavioural rules. To test this hypothesis, 18‐month‐old infants were trained to …

Parenting and Theory of Mind represents the conjunction of two major research literatures in
child psychology. One is longstanding. The question of how best to rear children has been a …

Philosophical orthodoxy has it that intentional action consists in one's intention appropriately
causing a motion of one's body, placing the latter (conceptually and/or metaphysically) prior …

Two studies were conducted to examine infants' ability to discern intentions from lexical and
prosodic cues. Two groups of 14–18-month-olds participated in these studies. In both …