THE ROLE OF SYNTAX AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTION IN THE TRANSITION FROM IMPLICIT TO EXPLICIT MENTAL COMPETENCE

• Authors: Putko A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This study was an attempt to examine the relationship between anticipatory looking reactions treated as an index of implicit mental competence and the development of syntax and executive function. In a study with fifty-eight 3- to 5-year-olds there were used eye gaze and verbal measures of false belief understanding, tasks on complement and embedded clause syntax (EmCS), inhibitory control and working memory. Controlling for age and other language and executive measures EmCS accounted for a small but significant amount of variance in looking reactions. When data of children who gave correct verbal answers were discarded there was no an independent of age link between looking reactions and EmCS. The results suggest the separateness of the mechanisms of implicit and explicit mental competence, but some connections between implicit competence and syntax may result from the penetration of an explicit mental competence into looking reactions.

Keywords

EN

ANTICIPATORY LOOKING REACTIONS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL COMPETENCE (IMPLICIT & EXPLICIT)

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee on Psychological Sciences PAS, Warsaw School of Social Psychology
• Journal: Psychological Studies
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 55-68
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Putko A.

• A. Putko, Szkola Wyzsza Psychologii Spolecznej, ul. Chodakowska 19/31, 03-815 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02364938