How specific is the relation between executive function and theory of mind? Contributions of inhibitory control and working memory

By Stephanie M. Carlson, L. J. Moses, C. Breton. 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Executive function and theory of mind (2008, neutral): “Previous studies only compared a limited number of EF domains (such as inhibition and working memory) with a limited number of tests of ToM (Carlson et al., 2002; Carlson et al., 2004; Carlson et al., 2004).”
Mindreading in Infancy (2013, background): “…is also consistent with the repeated finding that both language ability and executive function correlate with, and are predictive of, performance in verbal false-belief tasks (Astington and Jenkins, 1999; Carlson et al., 2002, 2004; Kloo and Perner, 2003; Milligan et al., 2007; Kovács, 2009).”
How language does (and does not) relate to theory of mind: A longitudinal study of syntax, semantics, working memory and false belief (2005, background): “Such findings are thus consistent with an expression rather than an emergence account of false belief (Carlson et al., 2002).”
Executive Function and False-Belief Understanding in Preschool Children: Two Tasks Are Harder Than One (2003, methodology): “The working assumption of the research reported here is consistent with the findings of Carlson and colleagues (Carlson & Moses, 2001; Carlson et al., 2002).”
Sources of variability in working memory in early childhood: A consideration of age, temperament, language, and brain electrical activity (2007, methodology): “The second " warm-up " task was a simplified version of the traditional Simon-says game and closely followed the Bear/Dragon procedure described by Carlson et al (2002; adopted from Reed, Pien, & Rothbart, 1984) except a pig puppet and a bull puppet were used.”
Developmentally Sensitive Measures of Executive Function in Preschool Children (2005, background): “Previous research suggested that these task demands are dissociable (e.g., Carlson et al., 2002; Diamond, Kirkham, & Amso, 2002; Espy & Bull, this issue; Hughes, 1998).”
The neural bases of cooperation and competition: an fMRI investigation (2004, background): “In addition, developmental research shows that executive control is an enabling factor for children succeeding on various theory of mind tasks (Carlson et al., 2002; Cole and Mitchell, 2000; Ozonoff et al., 1991).”
Executive function and theory of mind: stability and prediction from ages 2 to 3. (2004, methodology): “related to EF measures involving both inhibition and working memory (Carlson et al., 2002; Hala et al., 2003).”