Thinking while talking - Adults fail nonverbal false-belief reasoning

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作者
Newton, Ashley M. [1 ]
de Villiers, Jill G. [1 ]
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[1] Smith Coll, Dept Psychol, Northampton, MA 01063 USA
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10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01942.x
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
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This experiment tested the ability of 81 adult subjects to make a decision on a simple nonverbal false-belief reasoning task while concurrently either shadowing prerecorded spoken dialogue or tapping along with a rhythmic shadowing track. Our results showed that the verbal task, but not tapping, significantly disrupted false-belief reasoning, suggesting that language plays a key role in working theory of mind in adults, even when the false-belief reasoning is nonverbal.
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