Pointing disrupts preschoolers' ability to discriminate between knowledgeable and ignorant informants

Cognitive Development

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 54-63

  Palmquist, Carolyn M ^a   Burns, Heather E ^a   Jaswal, Vikram K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowing; Pointing; Reference; Seeing; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84155167729     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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