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| Title |
Maternal Talk in Cognitive Development: Relations between Psychological Lexicon, Semantic Development, Empathy, and Temperament
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, March 2016
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00394 |
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| Authors |
Dolores Rollo, Francesco Sulla |
| Abstract |
In this study, we investigated the relationship between mothers' psychological lexicon and children's cognitive and socio-emotive development as assessed through conceptual and semantic understanding tasks, in addition to the traditional tasks of theory of mind. Currently, there is considerable evidence to suggest that the frequency of mothers' mental state words used in mother-child picture-book reading is linked with children's theory of mind skills. Furthermore, mothers' use of cognitive terms is more strongly related to children's theory of mind performances than the mothers' references to other mental states, such as desires or emotions (Rollo and Buttiglieri, 2009). Current literature has established that early maternal input is related to later child mental state understanding; however it has not yet clarified which maternal terms are most useful for the socio-emotional and cognitive development of the child, and which aspect of the cognitive development benefits from the mother-child interaction. The present study addresses this issue and focuses on the relationship between mothers' mental state talk and children's behavior in conceptual and semantic tasks, and in a theory of mind task. In this study fifty pairs consisting of mothers and their 3 to 6-year-old children participated in two sessions: (1) The mothers read a picture book to their children. To assess the maternal psychological lexicon, their narrative was codified according to the categories of mental state references used in literature: perceptual, emotional, volitional, cognitive, moral, and communicative. (2) After a few days, the conceptual and semantic skills of the children (tasks of contextualization and classification, memory, and definition of words) and their psychological lexicon were assessed. The results suggest close links between the frequency and variety of mothers' mental state words and some semantic and conceptual skills of children. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 9 | 60% |
| Unknown | 6 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 85 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Bachelor | 19 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 7% |
| Researcher | 5 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 14 | 16% |
| Unknown | 28 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 27 | 31% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 3% |
| Unspecified | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 14 | 16% |
| Unknown | 29 | 34% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 May 2016.
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