How participation in fictional worlds can change children; how pretending and real engagement differ and are similar in terms of neural activation; how chidlren discriminate pretend and real; Montessori education
Selected Publications
• Nishida, T., & Lillard, A. S. (2007). The informative value of emotional expressions: Social referencing behavior in mother-infant pretense. Development Science, 10, 205-212.
• Lillard, A. S., Nishida, T., Vaish, A., Massaro, D., Ma, L., & McRoberts, J. (2007). Signs of pretense across age and scenario. Infancy, 11(1), 1-30.
• Ma, L., & Lillard, A. (2006). Where is the real cheese: Young children's understanding of pretense. Child Development, 77(6), 1762-1777
• Lillard, A.S., Pinkham, A., & Smith, E. (2010). Pretend play and cognitive development. In U. Goswami (Ed.), Handbook of cognitive development, 2nd Ed. London: Blackwell.
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