Newborn infant's perception of partly occluded objects

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 145-148

  Slater, Alan ^a   Johnson, Scott P ^b   Brown, Elizabeth ^b   Badenoch, Marion ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Newborn perception; Object unity; Occluded objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029692607     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(96)90052-1     Document Type: Article

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