RESUMEN

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.

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Desarrollo Infantil , Cognición , Conducta Social , Atención , Preescolar , Formación de Concepto , Femenino , Humanos , Lactante , Pruebas de Inteligencia , Relaciones Interpersonales , Desarrollo del Lenguaje , Masculino , Psicología Infantil , Escuelas de Párvulos , Percepción Social