Tamara Demke's research while affiliated with Concordia University Montreal and other places

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Article
Adopting a procedure developed with human speakers, we examined infants' ability to follow a nonhuman agent's gaze direction and subsequently to use its gaze to learn new words. When a programmable robot acted as the speaker (Experiment 1), infants followed its gaze toward the word referent whether or not it coincided with their own focus of attent...

Citations

... Twenty studies included toddlers who were 12 months or older, while seven studies included infants under 12 months. Five studies reported the socioeconomic status of the families [63][64][65][66][67], all belonging to the middle-class. For more details about the samples, see S1 Table. ...