Goal salience affects infants' goal-directed gaze shifts

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Henrichs, Ivanina ^a   Elsner, Claudia ^b   Elsner, Birgit ^a   Gredebäck, Gustaf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Action understanding; Anticipation; Eye movement; Infant; Salience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871023918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00391     Document Type: Article

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