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

The majority of current developmental models prioritise a pedagogical approach to knowledge acquisition in infancy, in which infants play a relatively passive role as recipients of information. In view of recent evidence, demonstrating that infants use pointing to express interest and solicit inform...

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Main Authors: Katarina Begus, Teodora Gliga, Victoria Southgate
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108817
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