Infants interpret ambiguous requests for absent objects.

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 696-704

  Saylor, Megan M ^a   Ganea, Patricia ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant development; Language development; Pragmatic competence; Spatial memory; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR VISION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COLOR PERCEPTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34248358222     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.3.696     Document Type: Article

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