The attribution of attention: 9-month-olds' interpretation of gaze as goal-directed action: REPORT

Developmental Science

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 530-537

  Johnson, Susan C ^a   Ok, Su Jeong ^a   Luo, Yuyan ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34547680362     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00606.x     Document Type: Article

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