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@article{citeulike:625629, abstract = {Recent research examining infants' understanding of intentional action claims to be studying the early origins or precursors of children's later theories of mind If these infant understandings are continuous with later preschool achievements, there should be empirical connections between the two. We provide initial evidence that infants' social attention predicts later social cognition. Specifically, 14-month-olds' habituation to human intentional action significantly predicts later preschool mentalistic construal of persons, as measured on a Theory of Mind Scale.}, address = {Center for Human Growth and Development, and Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109-0406, USA. hmw@umich.edu}, author = {Wellman, H. M. and Phillips, A. T. and Dunphy-Lelii, S. and LaLonde, N.}, citeulike-article-id = {625629}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15595369}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=15595369}, issn = {1363-755X}, journal = {Dev Sci}, keywords = {child, cognition, infant, longitudinal, social\_psychology, theory\_of\_mind}, month = {June}, number = {3}, pages = {283--288}, posted-at = {2006-11-13 16:32:46}, priority = {5}, title = {Infant social attention predicts preschool social cognition.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15595369}, volume = {7}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:625629 L3 - citeulike-article-id:625629 N2 - Recent research examining infants' understanding of intentional action claims to be studying the early origins or precursors of children's later theories of mind If these infant understandings are continuous with later preschool achievements, there should be empirical connections between the two. We provide initial evidence that infants' social attention predicts later social cognition. Specifically, 14-month-olds' habituation to human intentional action significantly predicts later preschool mentalistic construal of persons, as measured on a Theory of Mind Scale. IS - 3 JF - Dev Sci SN - 1363-755X AD - Center for Human Growth and Development, and Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109-0406, USA. hmw@umich.edu EP - 288 TI - Infant social attention predicts preschool social cognition. VL - 7 SP - 283 KW - child KW - cognition KW - infant KW - longitudinal KW - social_psychology KW - theory_of_mind AU - Wellman, HM AU - Phillips, AT AU - Dunphy-Lelii, S AU - LaLonde, N PY - 2004/06// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15595369 ER -