Pointing as epistemic request: 12-month-olds point to receive new information

Infancy

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 543-557

  Kovács, Ágnes Melinda ^a   Tauzin, Tibor ^a,b   Téglás, Erno ^a   Gergely, György ^a   Csibra, Gergely ^a  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; EPISTEMIC REQUEST; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT; INFORMATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTIVATION; PREDICTION; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 85027951108     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/infa.12060     Document Type: Article

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