Comparable performance on looking and reaching versions of the A-not-B task at 8 months of age

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 221-235

  Bell, Martha Ann ^a   Adams, Stephanie E ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Object permanence A not B task frontal lobe working memory inhibition attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002023432     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(99)00010-7     Document Type: Article

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