Goal attribution to inanimate agents by 6.5-month-old infants

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 705-717

  Csibra, Gergely ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Goal attribution; Infancy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GOALS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENTION; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 41349101303     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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