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False-belief reasoning from 3 to 92 years of age
False-belief reasoning, defined as the ability to reason about another person’s beliefs and appreciate that beliefs can differ from reality, is an important aspect of perspective taking. We tested 266 individuals, at various ages ranging from 3 to 92 years, on a continuous measure of false-belief re...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619768/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28957366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185345 |
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author | Bernstein, Daniel M. Coolin, Alisha Fischer, Ashley L. Thornton, Wendy Loken Sommerville, Jessica A. |
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description | False-belief reasoning, defined as the ability to reason about another person’s beliefs and appreciate that beliefs can differ from reality, is an important aspect of perspective taking. We tested 266 individuals, at various ages ranging from 3 to 92 years, on a continuous measure of false-belief reasoning (the Sandbox task). All age groups had difficulty suppressing their own knowledge when estimating what a naïve person knew. After controlling for task-specific memory, our results showed similar false-belief reasoning abilities across the preschool years and from older childhood to younger adulthood, followed by a small reduction in this ability from younger to older adulthood. These results highlight the relative similarity in false-belief reasoning abilities at different developmental periods across the lifespan. |
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spelling | pubmed-56197682017-10-17 False-belief reasoning from 3 to 92 years of age Bernstein, Daniel M. Coolin, Alisha Fischer, Ashley L. Thornton, Wendy Loken Sommerville, Jessica A. PLoS One Research Article False-belief reasoning, defined as the ability to reason about another person’s beliefs and appreciate that beliefs can differ from reality, is an important aspect of perspective taking. We tested 266 individuals, at various ages ranging from 3 to 92 years, on a continuous measure of false-belief reasoning (the Sandbox task). All age groups had difficulty suppressing their own knowledge when estimating what a naïve person knew. After controlling for task-specific memory, our results showed similar false-belief reasoning abilities across the preschool years and from older childhood to younger adulthood, followed by a small reduction in this ability from younger to older adulthood. These results highlight the relative similarity in false-belief reasoning abilities at different developmental periods across the lifespan. Public Library of Science 2017-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5619768/ /pubmed/28957366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185345 Text en © 2017 Bernstein et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bernstein, Daniel M. Coolin, Alisha Fischer, Ashley L. Thornton, Wendy Loken Sommerville, Jessica A. False-belief reasoning from 3 to 92 years of age |
title | False-belief reasoning from 3 to 92 years of age |
title_full | False-belief reasoning from 3 to 92 years of age |
title_fullStr | False-belief reasoning from 3 to 92 years of age |
title_full_unstemmed | False-belief reasoning from 3 to 92 years of age |
title_short | False-belief reasoning from 3 to 92 years of age |
title_sort | false-belief reasoning from 3 to 92 years of age |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619768/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28957366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185345 |
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