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In Press

  • Parsons, S., Leonard, A. & Mitchell, P. (2004). virtual environments for social skills training: comments from two adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder. Computers and Education (in press).

  • Mitchell, P. (2005). Developing an understanding of beliefs: Some themes and controversies. The Hellenic Journal of Psychology (in press)

  • Rajendran, G. & Mitchell, P. (in press). Cognitive Theories of Autism. Developmental Review [download .doc - 195KB]

  • Sprung, M., Perner, J. & Mitchell, P. (in press) Opacity and Discourse Referents: Object Identity and Object Properties. Mind & Language

2007

  • Back, E. Mitchell, P. & Ropar, D. (2007). Do the eyes have it? Inferring mental states from animated faces in autism. Child Development. Vol 78 (2): 397-411 [download .doc - 3.27MB]

  • Kikuno, H., Mitchell, P., & Ziegler, F. (2007) How do young children process beliefs about beliefs?: Evidence from response latency. Mind & Language Vol. 22 (3): 297-316

  • Mitchell, P., Souglidou, M., Mills, L. & Ziegler, F. (2007) Seeing is believing: How participants in different subcultures judge people’s credulity. European Journal of Social Psychology.Vol. 37: 573-185 [Available on-line]

 

2006

  • Rai, R. & Mitchell, P. (2006). Children’s ability to impute inferentially-based knowledge. Child Development, Vol. 77 (4): 1081-1093

  • Rajendran, G., & Mitchell, P. (2006). Text chat as a tool for referential questioning in Asperger syndrome. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research.49 (1): 102-112

2005

  • Chapman, P., Ropar, D. & Mitchell, P. (2005). Understanding boundary extension: Normalisation and extension errors in picture memory among adults and boys with and without Asperger syndrome. Visual Cognition. Vol. 12 (7): 1265 - 1290

  • Mitchell P., Ledgeway T. & Landry O. (2005) Abnormal motion perception in autism: Implications for primacy, heterogeneity, diagnosis and further research. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive-Current Ppsychology of Cognition, 23 (1-2): 143-152

  • Mitchell, P. Ropar, D., Ackroyd, K. & Rajendran, G. (2005) How perception impacts on drawings. JEP:HPP, 31 (5): 996-1003

  • Parsons, S., Mitchell, P., & Leonard, A. (2005) Do adolescents with autistic spectrum disorders adhere to social conventions in virtual environments? Autism, Vol 9 (1): 95-117

  • Rajendran, G., Mitchell, P. & Rickards, H. (2005). How do individuals with Asperger syndrome respond to nonliteral language and inappropriate requests in computer-mediated communication? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 35 (4): 429-443.

  • Sheppard, E., Ropar, D. & Mitchell, P. (2005). The impact of meaning and dimensionality on the accuracy of children’s copying. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, Vol. 23 (3): 365 - 381

  • Ziegler, F., Mitchell, P., & Currie, G.(2005) How does narrative cue children's perspective taking? Developmental Psychology.Vol 41 (1): 115-123. [pdf]

2004

  • Rai, R., & Mitchell, P., (2004) Five-year-old children’s difficulty with false belief when the sought entity is a person Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 89 (2), 112–126. [pdf]

  • Mitchell, P. & Ropar, D. (2004). Visuo-spatial abilities in autism: A review. Infant and Child Development,Vol 13 (3): 185-198. [pdf]

  • Parsons, S, Mitchell, P. & Leonard, A. (2004). The use and understanding of virtual environments by adolescents with autistic spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Vol 34 (4): 449-466.

2003

  • Ropar, D., Mitchell, P. & Ackroyd, K. (2003). Do children with autism find it difficult to offer alternative interpretations to ambiguous figures? British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 21 (3), 387-395.

  • Hulme, S., Mitchell, P. & Wood, D. (2003). Six-year-olds' difficulties handling intensional contexts. Cognition, 87, 73-99.

  • Burton, S. & Mitchell, P. (2003). Judging who knows best about yourself: Developmental change in citing the self across middle childhood. Child Development, 74 (2), 426-444 [pdf]

  • Rutten, A., Cobb, S., Neale, H., Kerr, S., Leaonard, A., Parons, S. & Mitchell, P. (2003). The AS interactive project: Single-user and collaborative virtual environments for people with high-functioning autistic spectrum disorders. The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, 14, 233-241.

2002

  • Ropar, D. & Mitchell, P. (2002). Shape constancy in autism: The role of prior knowledge and perspective cues. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43, 647-653 [pdf]

  • Cobb, S., Beardon, L., Eastgate, R., Glover, T., Kerr, S., Neale, H., Parsons, S., Benford, S., Hopkins, E., Mitchell, P., Reynard, G., & Wilson, J. (2002). Applied virtual environments to support learning of social interaction skills in users with Asperger's syndrome. Digital Creativity, 13, 1-12.

2001

  • Ropar, D. & Mitchell, P. (2001). Do individuals with autism and Asperger's syndrome utilise prior knowledge when pairing stimuli? Developmental Science, 4, 433-441.

  • Ropar, D. & Mitchell, P. (2001). Susceptibility to illusions and performance on visuo-spatial tasks in individuals with autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42, 539-549.

2000

  • Rajendran, G. & Mitchell, P. (2000). Computer mediated interaction in Asperger's syndrome: The bubble dialogue program. Computers and Education, 35, 189-207.

  • Cole, K. & Mitchell, P. (2000). The role of social experience in the development of executive functions. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 18, 279-295.

1999

  • Saltmarsh, R. & Mitchell, P. (1999). Indelible evidence of holding a false belief: Confronting young children with video recordings of themselves. Psychologia, 42, 145-159.

  • Ropar, D. & Mitchell, P. (1999). Are individuals with autism and Asperger's syndrome susceptible to visual illusions? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 40, 1283-1293.

  • Mitchell, P., Robinson, E.J. & Thompson, D.E. (1999). Children's understanding that utterances emanate from minds: Using speaker belief to aid interpretation. Cognition, 72, 45-66. [pdf]

  • Mitchell, P. & Taylor, L.M. (1999). Shape constancy and theory of mind: Is there a link? Cognition, 70, 167-190. [pdf]

  • Mitchell, P. (1999). The role of language and communication in children's ability to reason about the mind. The Annual Report of Educational Psychology in Japan, 38, 188-194.

  • Robinson, E.J., Champion, H. & Mitchell, P. (1999). Children's ability to infer utterance veracity from speaker informedness. Developmental Psychology, 35, 535-546.

  • Parsons, S. & Mitchell, P. (1999) What children with autism understand about thoughts and thought bubbles. Autism, 3, 17-38.

1998

  • Saltmarsh, R. & Mitchell, P. (1998). Young children's difficulty acknowledging false belief: Realism and deception. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 69, 3-21.

  • K.J. Riggs, D.M. Peterson, E.J. Robinson, P. Mitchell. (1998). Are errors in false belief tasks symptomatic of a broader difficulty with counterfactuality? Cognitive Development, 13, 73-90.

  • Cole, K. & Mitchell, P. (1998) Family background in relation to deceptive ability and understanding of the mind. Social Development, 7, 181-197.

1997

  • Taylor, L.M. & Mitchell, P. (1997) Judgments of apparent shape contaminated by knowledge of real shape. British Journal of Psychology, 88, 653-670.

  • Mitchell, P., Saltmarsh, R. & Russell, H. (1997). Overly literal interpretations of speech in autism: Apprehending the mind behind the message. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 38, 685-692.

  • Mitchell, P., Robinson, E.J., Nye, R.M. & Isaacs, J.E. (1997). When speech conflicts with seeing: Young children's understanding of informational priority. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 64, 276-294.


1996

  • Mitchell, P., Davidoff, J. & Brown, C. (1996). Young children's ability to process object colour: Coloured pictogens and verbal mediation. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 14, 339-354.

  • Mitchell, P., Robinson, E.J., Isaacs, J.E. & Nye, R.M. (1996).Contamination in reasoning about false belief: An instance of realist bias in adults but not children. Cognition, 59, 1-21. [pdf]

1995

  • Saltmarsh, R., Mitchell, P. & Robinson, E. (1995) Realism and children's early grasp of mental representation: Belief-based judgments in the State Change task. Cognition, 57, 297-325.

  • Robinson, E.J., Mitchell, P. & Nye, R. (1995). Young children's treating of utterances as unreliable sources of knowledge. Journal of Child Language, 22, 663-685.

  • Robinson, E.J. & Mitchell, P. (1995). Masking of children's early understanding of the representational mind: Backwards explanation versus prediction. Child Development, 66, 1022-1039.

1994

  • Mitchell, P. & Saltmarsh, R. (1994). Communicating, reading one's own mind and resisting reality. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive, 13, 652-660.

  • Mitchell, P. & Isaacs, J.E. (1994) Understanding of verbal representation in children with autism: The case of referential opacity. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 12, 439-453.

  • Davidoff, J. & Mitchell, P. (1994). Les bebes et les couleurs. La Recherche, 25, 938-939.

  • Mitchell, P. & Robinson, E.J. (1994). Discrepant messages resulting from a false belief: Children's evaluations. Child Development, 65, 1210-1223.

  • Robinson, E. J. & Mitchell, P. (1994). Children's judgments of ignorance on the basis of absence of experience. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 12, 113-130.

  • Robinson, E.J. & Mitchell, P. (1994). Young children's false belief reasoning: interpretation of messages is no easier than the classic task. Developmental Psychology, 30, 67-72.

1993

  • Davidoff, J. & Mitchell, P. (1993). The colour cognition of children. Cognition, 48, 121-137.

1992

  • Mitchell, P. (1992). Realite et representation du monde, une distinction innee? La Recherche, 23, 1332-1333.

  • Mitchell, P. & Robinson, E. J. (1992). Children's understanding of the evidential connotation of "know" in relation to overestimation of their own knowledge. Journal of Child Language, 19, 167-182.

  • Robinson, E. J. & Mitchell, P. (1992). Children's interpretation of messages from a speaker with a false belief. Child Development, 63, 639-652.

1991

  • Mitchell, P. & Lacohee, H. (1991). Children's early understanding of false belief. Cognition, 39, 107-127.

  • Mitchell, P., Munno, A., & Russell, J. (1991). Children's understanding about the communicative value of discrepant verbal messages. Cognitive Development, 6, 279-300.

  • Mitchell, P. & Russell, J. (1991). Children's judgments of whether slightly and grossly discrepant objects were intended by a speaker.British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9, 271-280.

1985 - 1990

  • Mitchell, P. & Robinson, E. J. (1990). When do children overestimate their knowledge of unfamiliar targets? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 50, 81-101.

  • Robinson, E. J. & Mitchell, P. (1990). Children's failure to make judgments of undecidability when they are ignorant. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 13, 467-488.

  • Mitchell, P. & Russell, J. (1989). Young children's understanding of the say-mean distinction in referential speech. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 47, 468-490.

  • Russell, J. & Mitchell, P. (1985). Things are not always as they seem: the appearance-reality distinction and conservation. Educational Psychology, 5, 227-238.

 

 

 

 

 

Books

  • Mitchell, P. & Ziegler, F. (2007) Fundamentals of Development: The Psychology of Childhood. Psychology Press link to publisher

  • Mitchell, P. & Riggs, K.J. (2000). Children's Reasoning and the Mind. Hove: Psychology Press. (Edited)

  • Mitchell, P. (1997). Introduction to Theory of Mind: Children, Autism and Apes. London: Arnold

  • Mitchell, P. (1996). Acquiring a Conception of Mind: A Review of Psychological Research and Theory. Hove: Psychology press.

  • Lewis, C. & Mitchell, P. (1994). Children's Early Understanding of Mind: Origins and Development. Hove: Erlbaum. (Edited)

  • Mitchell, P. (1992). The Psychology of Childhood. London: Falmer Press.

 

Book Chapters

  • Mitchell, P. (2003). Acquiring a theory of mind. In A. Slater and G. Bremner (Eds.) Developmental Psychology: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.

  • Mitchell, P. & Kikuno, H. (2000). Belief as construction: inference and processing bias. In P. Mitchell & K.J. Riggs (Eds). Children's Reasoning and the Mind. Hove: Psychology Press.

  • Riggs, K.J. & Mitchell, P. (2000). Making judgments about mental states: Processes and inferences. In P. Mitchell & K.J. Riggs (Eds). Children's Reasoning and the Mind. Hove: Psychology Press.

  • Mitchell, P. (1994). Cognitive development. In D. Tantam & M. Birchwood (Eds.) Psychology and Social Sciences in Psychiatry. London: Gaskell Press.

  • Mitchell, P. (1994). Realism and early conception of mind: phylogenetic and ontogenetic issues. In C. Lewis and P. Mitchell (Eds). Children's Early Understanding of Mind: Origins and Development. Hove: Erlbaum.

  • Mitchell, P. & Lewis, C. (1994). Critical issues in children's early understanding of mind. In C. Lewis and P. Mitchell (Eds). Children's Early Understanding of Mind: Origins and Development. Hove: Erlbaum.

 

  

 

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