The development of relational landmark use in six- to twelve-month-old infants in a spatial orientation task

Child Development

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1179-1190

  Lew, Adina R ^a   Bremner, J Gavin ^b   Lefkovitch, Leonard P ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034280984     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00222     Document Type: Article

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