My Neighbor: Children's Perception of Agency in Interaction with an Imaginary Agent

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Moriguchi, Yusuke ^a,b   Shinohara, Ikuko ^c  

^a JOETSU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINARY COMPANION; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; THINKING;

CHILD; HUMANS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84866077932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044463     Document Type: Article

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