The power of human gaze on infant learning

Cognition

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 127-133

  Okumura, Yuko ^a   Kanakogi, Yasuhiro ^a   Kanda, Takayuki ^b   Ishiguro, Hiroshi ^b,c   Itakura, Shoji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Gaze following; Humanoid robot; Infant learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; INFORMATION; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84877794269     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.03.011     Document Type: Article

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