How Infants Use Vision for Grasping Objects

Child Development

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 973-987

  McCarty, Michael E ^a   Clifton, Rachel K ^a   Ashmead, Daniel H ^b   Lee, Philip ^c   Goubet, Nathalie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECALL; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

EID: 0035404275     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00329     Document Type: Article

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