Reliance on head versus eyes in the gaze following of great apes and human infants: the cooperative eye hypothesis

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 314-320

  Tomasello, Michael ^a   Hare, Brian ^a   Lehmann, Hagen ^a   Call, Josep ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apes; Eyes; Gaze following; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; CONSPECIFIC; HUMAN EVOLUTION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; PRIMATE;

HOMINIDAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 33846928029     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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