Changes in human infants' sensitivity to slow displacements over the first 6 months

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 417-423

  Roessler, Jacqueline S ^a   Dannemiller, James L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Infants; Motion; Position; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; MOTION PERCEPTION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0031046805     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00176-9     Document Type: Article

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