The role of shape in 4-month-old infants' object segregation

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 161-178

  Needham, Amy ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Object perception perceptual development cognitive development object features

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001263757     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(99)00008-9     Document Type: Article

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