Beyond rational imitation: Learning arbitrary means actions from communicative demonstrations

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 471-486

  Király, Ildikó ^a   Csibra, Gergely ^b   Gergely, György ^b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Natural pedagogy; Ostensive communication; Rational imitation; Relevance guided imitation; Social Learning; Teleological stance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MALE; NATURAL PEDAGOGY; OSTENSIVE COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RATIONAL IMITATION; RELEVANCE-GUIDED IMITATION; SOCIAL LEARNING; TELEOLOGICAL STANCE;

NATURAL PEDAGOGY; OSTENSIVE COMMUNICATION; RATIONAL IMITATION; RELEVANCE-GUIDED IMITATION; SOCIAL LEARNING; TELEOLOGICAL STANCE;

ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE;

EID: 84883456965     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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