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Infants' Understanding of Looking, Pointing, and Reaching as Cues to Goal-Directed Action

Pages 289-316 | Published online: 13 Nov 2009

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Madelaine Krehm, KristineH. Onishi & Athena Vouloumanos. (2014) I See Your Point: Infants Under 12 Months Understand That Pointing Is Communicative. Journal of Cognition and Development 15:4, pages 527-538.
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Amber Thiessen, David Beukelman, Cara Ullman & Maria Longenecker. (2014) Measurement of the Visual Attention Patterns of People with Aphasia: A Preliminary Investigation of Two Types of Human Engagement in Photographic Images. Augmentative and Alternative Communication 30:2, pages 120-129.
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Sarah Dunphy-Lelii, Jennifer LaBounty, JonathanD. Lane & HenryM. Wellman. (2014) The Social Context of Infant Intention Understanding. Journal of Cognition and Development 15:1, pages 60-77.
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Markus Paulus & Paula Fikkert. (2014) Conflicting Social Cues: Fourteen- and 24-Month-Old Infants' Reliance on Gaze and Pointing Cues in Word Learning. Journal of Cognition and Development 15:1, pages 43-59.
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Neha Mahajan & AmandaL. Woodward. (2009) Seven-Month-Old Infants Selectively Reproduce the Goals of Animate But Not Inanimate Agents. Infancy 14:6, pages 667-679.
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Laura O'Connell, Diane Poulin-Dubois, Tamara Demke & Amanda Guay. (2009) Can Infants Use a Nonhuman Agent's Gaze Direction to Establish Word–Object Relations?. Infancy 14:4, pages 414-438.
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Diane Poulin-Dubois, Beate Sodian, Ulrike Metz, Joanne Tilden & Barbara Schoeppner. (2007) Out of Sight Is Not Out of Mind: Developmental Changes in Infants' Understanding of Visual Perception During the Second Year. Journal of Cognition and Development 8:4, pages 401-425.
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CamilleW. Brune & AmandaL. Woodward. (2007) Social Cognition and Social Responsiveness in 10-month-old Infants. Journal of Cognition and Development 8:2, pages 133-158.
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