Young children's storybooks as a source of mental state information

Dyer, Jennifer; Shatz, Marilyn; Wellman, Henry M.

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“…Although the strengths of the book-sharing context had been identified previously (Dyer et al, 2000;Symons et al, 2005), the paradigm prevented us from drawing conclusions regarding the children's own mentalistic discourse. One reason for the reduced output by children in this study is that the children were too old for the task, and this is consistent with the reported negative correlations with chronological age.…”

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“…The book-sharing narrative has been shown to be an attractive and valid method for assessing mother-child dialogue (Slaughter et al, 2007;Symons, Peterson, Slaughter, Roche, & Doyle, 2005), as it provides a naturalistic setting and an opportunity to elaborate and ask questions by both conversational partners, including conversation about the story characters' thoughts and feelings (Symons et al, 2005;Dyer, Shatz, & Wellman, 2000). We felt that a story-book narrative using an unfamiliar book would provide a suitable context within which to examine the incidence and nature of language input to children with VI, particularly as it is not solely visiondependent like other available paradigms (Ruffman et al, 2002).…”

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Attentional processes in young children with congenital visual impairment

Tadić

Pring

Dale

2009

British J of Dev Psycho

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The study investigated mentalistic and descriptive discourse between school-aged children with visual impairment (VI) from birth, age 6-12 years, and their sighted mothers during joint book narrative (n=12), and in comparison to a group of sighted children of comparable age and verbal ability, and their mothers (n=14). The mothers of children with VI referred to the story characters' mental states and used descriptive elaborations to a greater extent than did the mothers of sighted children. The more mentalistic language the mothers of children with VI produced, the more mentalistic language was spoken by their children, although this was not independent of mothers' verbosity. The frequency of maternal elaborations, including their mentalistic language, was related the VI child's verbal cognition and socio-communicative competence. The findings offer an insight into nature and value of verbal scaffolding provided by mothers to their children with VI, shedding light on a potential candidate for future interventions.

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Attentional processes in young children with congenital visual impairment

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Dale

2009

British J of Dev Psycho

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“…This is the case of recent psychological studies in which mental states do not cope with beliefs, intentions or actions, but rather are considered emotional states. For example, Dyer et al [24] presented a study on the cognitive development of mentalstate understanding of children in which they discovered the positive effect of storybook reading to make children more effective being aware of mental states. The authors related English terms found in story books to mental states, not only using terms such as think, know or want, but also words that refer to emotion, desire, moral evaluation and obligation.…”

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Predicting user mental states in spoken dialogue systems

Callejas

Griol

López-Cózar

2011

EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process.

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In this paper we propose a method for predicting the user mental state for the development of more efficient and usable spoken dialogue systems. This prediction, carried out for each user turn in the dialogue, makes it possible to adapt the system dynamically to the user needs. The mental state is built on the basis of the emotional state of the user and their intention, and is recognized by means of a module conceived as an intermediate phase between natural language understanding and the dialogue management in the architecture of the systems. We have implemented the method in the UAH system, for which the evaluation results with both simulated and real users show that taking into account the user's mental state improves system performance as well as its perceived quality.

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“…Estudos internacionais (e.g., Cassidy et al, 1998;Dyer, Shatz, & Wellman, 2000;Ruther, 1997, citado por Dyer, Shatz, & Wellman, 2000 demonstram que os livros de histórias para crianças pequenas, pelo conteúdo do material textual que apresentam, pelo tipo de linguagem que utilizam e por centrarem suas ações e interações em pessoas ou animais personificados, constituem fonte relevante de informações sobre estados internos, podendo ampliar as habilidades infantis no domínio da compreensão das intenções, desejos, crenças, emoções, conhecimento de si próprio e dos outros (Rodrigues, 2004).…”

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“…No Dyer, Shatz, & Wellman, 2000) analisou 30 livros de histórias para crianças de dois a seis anos de idade encontrando também alta freqüência de termos referindo-se a estados mentais. Cassidy et al (1998) analisaram conceitos relativos ao conteúdo da teoria da mente em uma ampla amostra de 371 livros infantis.…”

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Histórias infantis: um recurso para a compreensão dos estados mentais

Rodrigues

Rubac²

2008

Estud. psicol. (Natal)

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ResumoEste estudo examinou uma amostra de 100 livros de histórias infantis nacionais para crianças pré-escolares de quatro a seis anos de idade quanto à ocorrência de termos/expressões referentes a estados mentais a partir de três eixos de análise: via palavras e expressões no texto; via figuras; e via presença de ironia e crença falsa na narrativa. A análise dos termos mentais foi realizada por um grupo de três avaliadores. Foi encontrado que 92% dos livros analisados apresentavam termos denotando estados mentais, 12% apresentavam ironia situacional, 11% continham crença falsa e que as figuras representavam o estado mental expresso no texto. Os resultados sugerem que os livros infantis nacionais podem ser utilizados como recurso para promover o desenvolvimento sociocognitivo das crianças.Palavras-chave: teoria da mente; histórias infantis; estados mentais AbstractChildren's storybooks: a resource to the understanding of mental states. This study examined a sample of 100 national children's storybooks directed to pre-school children aged four to six years to identify words/ utterances that denote mental states according to three views of analysis: via words and expressions in the text; via the pictures; and via presence of irony or false beliefs in the narrative. The analysis of mental words was realized by a group of tree people. It was found that 92% of the analyzed books contained internal state language, 12% contained situational irony, 11% contained false belief and the pictures represented the mental state concepts expressed in the text. The results point out that the national children's storybooks can be used as a resource to promote socio-cognitive development of clildren.

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Young children's storybooks as a source of mental state information

Cited by 148 publications

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Attentional processes in young children with congenital visual impairment

Attentional processes in young children with congenital visual impairment

Predicting user mental states in spoken dialogue systems

Histórias infantis: um recurso para a compreensão dos estados mentais

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