"Let's work together": What do infants understand about collaborative goals?

Cognition

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-21

  Henderson, Annette M E ^a   Woodward, Amanda L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Action perception; Collaboration; Cooperation; Infant social cognition; Joint action; Shared intentionality; Visual habituation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENTION; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960926447     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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