Can infants use a nonhuman agent's gaze direction to establish word-object relations?

Infancy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 414-438

  O'Connell, Laura ^a   Poulin Dubois, Diane ^a   Demke, Tamara ^a   Guay, Amanda ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; OBJECT RELATION; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 68549125343     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15250000902994073     Document Type: Article

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