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Farrell C, Sanderson E, Mulvihill A, Thai M, Slaughter V
Br J Dev Psychol . 2024 Jun; PMID: 38842365
Mental state language (MSL) is an important mechanism through which children learn about their social world and place within it. Previous research has suggested that parents may use MSL differently...
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Farrell C, Slaughter V, McAuliffe T, Mulvihill A
J Autism Dev Disord . 2023 Oct; 54(11):4152-4166. PMID: 37831305
Participation in Organised Extracurricular Social Activities (OESA) can provide positive outcomes for children. This study investigated whether children aged 4 to 12 years diagnosed with autism differ in their OESA...
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Cuskelly M, Gilmore L, Rayner C, Girkin F, Mulvihill A, Slaughter V
Res Dev Disabil . 2023 Aug; 140:104574. PMID: 37531815
Background: Siblings represent an important influence on children's development. It is possible that sibling influence on developmental outcomes differs in sibling pairs when one of the children has a disability....
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Sommer K, Slaughter V, Wiles J, Nielsen M
J Exp Child Psychol . 2023 Apr; 232:105673. PMID: 37068443
The "video deficit" is a well-documented effect whereby children learn less well about information delivered via a screen than the same information delivered in person. Research suggests that increasing social...
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Mulvihill A, Armstrong R, Casey C, Redshaw J, Scarinci N, Slaughter V
Br J Dev Psychol . 2023 Apr; 41(3):227-245. PMID: 37042035
The study examined the presence and nature of a relationship between 13 early childhood educators' mental state language (MSL) and 77 preschool children's (3- to 5 years) Theory of Mind...
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Kong Q, Mulvihill A, Slaughter V, Fraser H, Cavanagh-Welch B, Elwina F, et al.
PLoS One . 2023 Mar; 18(3):e0282480. PMID: 36928220
Western mothers use more mental state talk with children than do Chinese mothers (e.g., "think", "like", "happy"). The present study aimed to examine whether Western mothers not only produced a...
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Sommer K, Redshaw J, Slaughter V, Wiles J, Nielsen M
Infant Behav Dev . 2021 Aug; 64:101614. PMID: 34333263
Traditionally, infants have learned how to interact with objects in their environment through direct observations of adults and peers. In recent decades these models have been available over different media,...
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Slaughter V
Trends Cogn Sci . 2021 Mar; 25(5):377-387. PMID: 33727017
Neonatal imitation is widely accepted as fact and cited as evidence of an inborn mirror neuron system that underpins human social behaviour, even though its existence has been debated for...
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Davis J, Redshaw J, Suddendorf T, Nielsen M, Kennedy-Costantini S, Oostenbroek J, et al.
Perspect Psychol Sci . 2021 Feb; 16(6):1373-1397. PMID: 33577426
Neonatal imitation is a cornerstone in many theoretical accounts of human development and social behavior, yet its existence has been debated for the past 40 years. To examine possible explanations...
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Slaughter V, Boh W
Infancy . 2021 Jan; 2(3):405-413. PMID: 33451209
Thirty-one infants, 7 to 14 months of age, were tested on object and mother permanence using a delayed response task (Diamond, 1985), in which a delay period is enforced before...