Object Recognition and Object Segregation in 4.5-Month-Old Infants

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-24

  Needham, Amy ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant cognition; Infant perception; Memory; Object perception; Representation (graphic)

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; NOTE;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 0035235955     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.2000.2598     Document Type: Article

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