Infants Learn What They Want to Learn: Responding to Infant Pointing Leads to Superior Learning

Katarina Begus; Teodora Gliga; Victoria Southgate

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0108817

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Infants Learn What They Want to Learn: Responding to Infant Pointing Leads to Superior Learning

Katarina Begus ,

* E-mail: k.begus@bbk.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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Teodora Gliga,

Affiliation Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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Victoria Southgate

Affiliation Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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Infants Learn What They Want to Learn: Responding to Infant Pointing Leads to Superior Learning

Katarina Begus,
Teodora Gliga,
Victoria Southgate

Published: October 7, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108817

About the Authors

Katarina Begus

* E-mail: k.begus@bbk.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Teodora Gliga

Affiliation Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Victoria Southgate

Affiliation Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KB TG VS. Performed the experiments: KB. Analyzed the data: KB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KB. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: KB TG VS.

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