Do 12.5-month-old infants consider what objects others can see when interpreting their actions?

Cognition

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 489-512

  Luo, Yuyan ^a   Baillargeon, Renée ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Goals dispositions; Infant cognition; Perception; Psychological reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34848863633     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.10.007     Document Type: Article

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