No two cues are alike: Depth of learning during infancy is dependent on what orients attention

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 118-136

  Wu, Rachel ^a   Kirkham, Natasha Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Infancy; Joint visual attention; Learning; Multimodal perception; Spatial cueing; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77954035628     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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