Maternal talk about mental states and the emergence of joint visual attention

Infancy

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 640-659

  Slaughter, Virginia ^a   Peterson, Candida ^a   Carpenter, Malinda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; JOINT VISUAL ATTENTION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 57049105190     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15250000802458807     Document Type: Article

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