The early origins of goal attribution in infancy

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 752-769

  Király, Ildikó ^a   Jovanovic, Bianca ^b   Prinz, Wolfgang ^b   Aschersleben, Gisa ^b   Gergely, György ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0344945689     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8100(03)00084-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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