Performance factors in false-belief tasks
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Language interpretation, memory, inhibitory control, response generation and other demands affecting the observed answer. Lowering concurrent demands while preserving the mistaken-belief contrast can reveal successful performance earlier than a standard task. The modified procedure still needs controls against cueing and simplified nonmental strategies.[ref]
Two-and-a-half-year-olds succeed at a traditional false-belief task with reduced processing demands by Peipei Setoh and others. PNAS 113, 13360–13365; Experiments 1–4 and picture-book apparatus
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