Socially guided attention influences infants' communicative behavior

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 627-634

  Miller, Jennifer L ^a   Gros Louis, Julie ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Caregiver interaction; Gestures; Prelinguistic; Sensitivity; Social

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CAREGIVER; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ATTENTION; VOCALIZATION;

ATTENTION; CAREGIVER INTERACTION; GESTURES; PRELINGUISTIC; SENSITIVITY; SOCIAL;

ATTENTION; CAREGIVERS; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE;

EID: 84881237869     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.06.010     Document Type: Article

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