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Imaginary companions and young children’s responses to ambiguous auditory stimuli: Implications for typical and atypical development (2007)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C., Bland, K., Meins, E., & Coltheart, M. (2007). Imaginary companions and young children’s responses to ambiguous auditory stimuli: Implications for typical and atypical development. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48(11), 1094-1101. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01789.x

Background: Previous research has reported a link between imaginary companions (ICs) in middle childhood and the perception of verbal material in ambiguous auditory stimuli. These findings have been interpreted in terms of commonalities in the cognit... Read More about Imaginary companions and young children’s responses to ambiguous auditory stimuli: Implications for typical and atypical development.

Repetitive behaviours in typically developing 2-year-olds (2007)
Journal Article
Leekam, S., Tandos, J., McConachie, H., Meins, E., Parkinson, K., Wright, C., …Le Couteur, A. (2007). Repetitive behaviours in typically developing 2-year-olds. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48(11), 1131-1138. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01778.x

Background: Repetitive behaviours are an essential part of the diagnosis of autism but are also commonly seen in typically developing children. The current study investigated the frequency and factor structure of repetitive behaviours in a large comm... Read More about Repetitive behaviours in typically developing 2-year-olds.

Preschoolers’ understanding of multiple orientations to reality: The Adjectives task. (2007)
Journal Article
Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2007). Preschoolers’ understanding of multiple orientations to reality: The Adjectives task. Cognitive Development, 22(2), 289-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2006.10.008

Preschoolers’ understanding that an object can be accurately described using two different non-synonymous words was investigated using a task in which children (N = 36) had to judge which of two animals had provided correct adjectival labels for a se... Read More about Preschoolers’ understanding of multiple orientations to reality: The Adjectives task..