Understanding the abstract role of speech in communication at 12months

Cognition

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 50-60

  Martin, Alia ^a,b,c   Onishi, Kristine H ^a   Vouloumanos, Athena ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Communication; Infant cognition; Knowledge acquisition; Psychological reasoning; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DOCUMENTATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION;

COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; COUGH; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPEECH;

EID: 84856803420     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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