How infants relate looker and object: Evidence for a perceptual learning account of gaze following in infancy

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1301-1310

  Paulus, Markus ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PURSUIT, SMOOTH;

EID: 80054899701     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01076.x     Document Type: Article

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