From action to interaction: Infant object exploration and mothers' contingent responsiveness

IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 202-209

  Tamis Lemonda, Catherine S ^a   Kuchirko, Yana ^a   Tafuro, Lisa ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b St Joseph's College New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant object exploration; infant word learning; language development; maternal responsiveness

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MATERNAL RESPONSIVENESS; MULTI-MODAL; OBJECT EXPLORATION; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; WORD LEARNING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84884504450     PISSN: 19430604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAMD.2013.2269905     Document Type: Article

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