Spatiotemporal Integration and Object Perception in Infancy: Perceiving Unity versus Form

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2621-2640

  Van De Walle, Gretchen A ^a   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RANDOMIZATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FORM PERCEPTION; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030334645     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1131743     Document Type: Article

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