Teleological and referential understanding of action in infancy

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1431, 2003, Pages 447-458

  Csibra, Gergely ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Goal directed action; Infancy; Referential action; Teleology; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

CHILD; IDEOLOGY;

EID: 0037471861     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1235     Document Type: Review

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