Driven from distraction: How infants respond to parents' attempts to elicit and re-direct their attention

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-50

  Deák, Gedeon O ^a   Walden, Tedra A ^b   Yale Kaiser, Marygrace ^c   Lewis, Audra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Miami   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention shifts; Gaze perception; Infant social development; Infant vision; Language development; Non verbal communication; Pointing; Pragmatic development; Shared attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; FEMALE; GAZE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PLAY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMMUNICATION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 37449007312     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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