Infants Track the Reliability of Potential Informants

Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1730-1738

  Tummeltshammer, Kristen Swan ^a   Wu, Rachel ^b   Sobel, David M ^c   Kirkham, Natasha Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive development; learning; social cognition

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; OCULOGRAPHY; PERCEPTION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CUES; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84908099339     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614540178     Document Type: Article

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