Infants learn what they want to learn: Responding to infant pointing leads to superior learning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Begus, Katarina ^a   Gliga, Teodora ^a   Southgate, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; OBJECT MANIPULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; MALE;

FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE;

EID: 84907854985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108817     Document Type: Article

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