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Record W4410336723 · doi:10.26443/crae.v51i1.1503

Manifestations of Theory of Mind (ToM) in Primary School Students During Art Appreciation Sessions

2025· article· en· W4410336723 on OpenAlex
Pedro Mendonça, Julie Mayrand

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Review of Art Education / Revue canadienne d’éducation artistique · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicEducational Methods and Teacher Development
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTheory of mindPsychologyPrimary (astronomy)Mathematics educationCognitive sciencePsychoanalysisVisual artsMedical educationArtMedicineNeuroscienceCognitionPhysics

Abstract

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Theory of Mind (ToM) is the cognitive ability to understand one’s own and others’ mental states, recognizing that others have unique beliefs and perspectives. This study uniquely integrates Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) with ToM development, offering a novel approach to understanding how art appreciation can enhance cognitive and socio-emotional skills in primary school students. By examining both cognitive and affective dimensions of ToM across diverse socio-cultural contexts, this research provides a comprehensive analysis that bridges gaps in existing literature on art education and cognitive development. The findings have significant practical implications, suggesting that incorporating VTS into the curriculum can foster empathy, perspective-taking, and critical thinking, thereby contributing to a more inclusive and supportive classroom environment. Keywords: Art Appreciation; Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS); Aesthetic Experiences; Cognitive Efficiency; Empathy; Imagination; Theory of Mind (ToM); Social and Emotional Learning.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.821
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.318
Teacher spread0.296 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it