Fine-grained analysis of motionese: Eye gaze, object exchanges, and action units in infant-versus adult-directed action

Infancy

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 203-214

  Brand, Rebecca J ^a   Shallcross, Wendy L ^a   Sabatos, Maura G ^a   Massie, Kara Phaedra ^a  

^a Department of Psychology   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFANT DIRECTED ACTION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MOTION; MOTIONESE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 34250157324     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2007.tb00223.x     Document Type: Article

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