On privileging the role of gaze in infant social cognition

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 59-65

  Akhtar, Nameera ^a   Gernsbacher, Morton Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 64549096024     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2008.00044.x     Document Type: Article

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