Prelinguistic infants, but not chimpanzees, communicate about absent entities: Research article

Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 654-660

  Liszkowski, Ulf ^a   Schäfer, Marie ^b   Carpenter, Malinda ^b   Tomasello, Michael ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 65549085323     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02346.x     Document Type: Article

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