Emergence of joint attention: Relationships between gaze following, social referencing, imitation, and naming in infancy

Journal of Genetic Psychology

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 54-71

  Slaughter, Virginia ^a   McConnell, Danielle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Infant cognitive development; Joint attention; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMOTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0043135022     PISSN: 00221325     EISSN: 19400896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221320309597503     Document Type: Article

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