Understanding the referential nature of looking: Infants' preference for object-directed gaze

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 303-319

  Senju, Atsushi ^a   Csibra, Gergely ^a   Johnson, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye gaze; Face; Infant; Looking time; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 43049139954     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.02.009     Document Type: Article

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