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Showing papers by "Serena Lecce published in 2018"

Journal Article•DOI•
Working memory predicts changes in children’s theory of mind during middle childhood: A training study

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Serena Lecce1, Federica Bianco1•
University of Pavia1
01 Jul 2018-Cognitive Development
TL;DR: In this article, the role of working memory (WM) in theory of mind (ToM) changes that occur in middle childhood using a training design was investigated, and the extent to which children benefited from ToM training was predicted by their WM.

23 citations

Journal Article•DOI•
Plasticity in older adults' theory of mind performance: the impact of motivation.

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Xin Zhang1, Serena Lecce2, Irene Ceccato2, Elena Cavallini2, Linfang Zhang1, Tianyong Chen3 •
Peking University1, University of Pavia2, Chinese Academy of Sciences3
02 Dec 2018-Aging & Mental Health
TL;DR: The results indicate that motivation can enhance older adults’ performance in Theory of Mind tasks, however, this beneficial effect cannot be generalized across ToM tasks.
Abstract: Objective: Recently, motivation has been found to attenuate the age-related decline in Theory of Mind (ToM) performance (i.e. faux pas recognition). However, whether or not this effect could be gen...

14 citations