Twelve-month-old infants recognize that speech can communicate unobservable intentions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 12933-12937

  Vouloumanos, Athena ^a   Onishi, Kristine H ^b   Pogue, Amanda ^a,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communication; Infant cognitive development; Infant speech perception; Knowledge acquisition; Psychological reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFORMATION STORAGE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNOBSERVABLE INTENTION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENTION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH;

EID: 84864685609     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1121057109     Document Type: Article

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