One-Year-Old Infants Follow Others' Voice Direction

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1298-1302

  Rossano, Federico ^a   Carpenter, Malinda ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

attention; gaze following; infant development; inference; joint attention; referential communication; social cognition; voice direction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869223257     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612450032     Document Type: Article

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