Exploration off surface-textures in congenitally blind infants

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 247-264

  Schellingerhout, R ^a   Smitsman, A W ^a   Van Galen, G P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blind; Development; Haptic; Infants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD WELFARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; TOUCH;

BLINDNESS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD WELFARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; TOUCH;

EID: 0031132531     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1997.tb00967.x     Document Type: Article

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