One-year-old infants appreciate the referential nature of deictic gestures and words

Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 347-353

  Gliga, Teodora ^a   Csibra, Gergely ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SEMANTICS; VIDEORECORDING;

COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 62349139766     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02295.x     Document Type: Article

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