Infant joint attention, neural networks and social cognition

Neural Networks

Volumn 23, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 985-997

  Mundy, Peter ^a   Jarrold, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant development; Joint attention; Neurodevelopment; Parallel and distributed cognition; Social cognition; Social learning

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; INFANT DEVELOPMENT; JOINT ATTENTION; NEURODEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL LEARNING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMBOLISM; THINKING;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77957859203     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2010.08.009     Document Type: Article

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