Do 8-month-old infants consider situational constraints when interpreting others' gaze as goal-directed action?

Infancy

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 392-419

  Luo, Yuyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAZE; HAND; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE;

EID: 77955990112     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2009.00019.x     Document Type: Article

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