Individual differences and the development of joint attention in infancy

Child Development

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 938-954

  Mundy, Peter ^a   Block, Jessica ^a   Delgado, Christine ^a   Pomares, Yuly ^a   Van Hecke, Amy Vaughan ^b   Parlade, Meaghan Venezia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; MALE;

EID: 34248635954     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01042.x     Document Type: Article

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