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Non-visual story-based behavioral ToM task

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Description

A publicly available non-visual, story-based theory-of-mind assessment developed by Richardson et al. for verbally assessing children aged four to twelve, including blind and sighted children.

Components

  • Non-visual story-based behavioral ToM task for blind and sighted children: A validated, non-visual story-based task measuring ToM reasoning in children aged four to twelve, publicly available at https://osf.io/pavdg/. Children listen to an experimenter read twenty short stories and answer 51 questions, including 22 two-alternative forced choice and 29 open-ended explanation questions targeting "desires, expectations, beliefs, intentions, perceptual access, and knowledge of the characters." Items vary the source modality of mental states (visual, aural, amodal) to test whether blind children show differential comprehension of visual experiences, and 19 control questions verify attention and comprehension. (Richardson H. et al. (2023))

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Key Sources

  • Richardson H., Saxe R., Bedny M. (2023). Neural correlates of theory of mind reasoning in congenitally blind children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101285
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title Non-visual story-based behavioral ToM task
description A publicly available non-visual, story-based theory-of-mind assessment developed by Richardson et al.
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product_kind assessment
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