Learning to cruise: Bernstein's theory applied to skill acquisition during infancy

Human Movement Science

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 685-715

  Haehl, Victoria ^a   Vardaxis, Vassilios ^b   Ulrich, Beverly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2330; Infant development; Motor coordination; Motor development; Motor skills; Walking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012676961     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9457(00)00034-8     Document Type: Article

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